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@mcmacker1
Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger
2 years
This is exactly what the pearl-clutch appeasement at all costs crowd can't seem to get. Putin is even getting to decide what they can do on their airbases in their own countries. All the deference has only increased the danger. No matter how Ukraine ends, the world is far worse
@olga_chyzh
Professor Olga Chyzh
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By responding, you take control. Ignoring the threat does NOT help preserve peace or de-escalate—it gives all the control to the opponent.
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@SeanPenn @yevhenfedchenko UA immigration policy). So Ukrainian pilots flying Ukrainian aircraft knock everything Russia has out of the sky at Bekaa Valley proportion. Then go to work on the ground. UA gave up their nukes for a better, safer world for us all, giving them a safe sky is the minimum
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@LeftJaddi Privilege is invisible to those who have it. People today say the same thing, then you find out their parents paid for their apartments, living expenses, and tuition. You worked your ass of for your... beer money? The Netflix bill (ah, no, using parents' account)
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@SeanPenn @yevhenfedchenko You'd need crews, support systems. Somebody'd have to authorize the sale and supplies or ordnance tech. But just lease a squadron of F-35s for two years. Pilots & crews willing to volunteer separate from US military, are granted Ukrainian citizenship (Putin doesn't get to decide
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@hjelle_brian Pull it down: I guess you're right. We just got back from Tanzigaruhloa, where there's this new variant that spreads in less than a second. It's ten times more deadly and somehow turns you gay. And ultra liberal. They think I'm contagious, but it's so new and dangerous the
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@HillelNeuer @WHO Same reason other internationals never saw the fighters there... "What are those guys doing here?" "Just focus on the patients" "But they're using the hospital as for military oper-" "Just focus on the patients. You didn't see anything!" "I didn't see anything"
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@TheBlondeRN @LizzieCosmos Plus Drs, who completed med school and residency and fellowships, spending more than 50% of their highly skilled time deal with ins matters, their education and experience vs a rep in a call center. Getting rid of them could massively increase medical capacity
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@hjelle_brian testing lab staff all died. Or turned gay Hard for the lab to function with all the missing scientists and leather. Anyway, I guess I shouldn't worry - my wife's new girlfriend says it's a hoax. Shall we continue this over a drink? How do you feel about socialized medicine?
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@HAnneH20 @math_rachel Your comment is fantastic. I'm gonna have to steal this one, although it's basically what I've been screaming - if spreading Covid everywhere made it milder, US would by now have turned it into a sniffle. Like HIV, Ebola, smallpox, rabies, measles... all now just a sniffle
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@JacquiHeinrich @JimmySecUK So Russian planes can use airbases in Belarus to fly into Ukraine, but Ukrianian planes can't take off from any other airbase anywhere, to fly into their own country Stop letting Putin make all the rules, and obeying them The only result of such obedience ever is escalation
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@mcmacker1
Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger
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@girlziplocked Transport plays a huge role. As we've gone from walkable communities and public gathering places to commuter suburbs and shopping centers, we no longer have the casual interactions essential to communities
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@mbick @WalshFreedom @TuckerCarlson "Just like how Covid seemed to target the unvaccinated, as though a virus could somehow know who had been sufficiently obedient to line up for an experimental virtue signaling woke culture so-called vaccine. Which isn't a vaccine at all because it doesn't come from a cow."
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@_RP_77 @twodogs007 @Biz_Ukraine_Mag No, полезный идиот Putin troll, it means Putin's forces are doing what they did in their slaughter of Grozny and to civilian evacuations in South Ossetia. This is absolutely standard Putin playbook. He's made not just a guy who really cares. And he's not gonna sleep with you
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@PhilKlay @waitasequitur I remember him going to Chechnya to personally deliver warm muffins and say any region has the right to choose what country it wants to be part of. And he went to Georgia to sing them some Ray Charles, but otherwise let them be But then we had to go and expand NATO...
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@mcmacker1
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@herosnvrdie69 Paid actor for what? What role is he saying you're playing? (Can't even imagine how much the parents of murdered children are loving that same accusation)
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@MCHoffner @TimTheGodmocker Dude, in Australia, our govt tried to introduce a fee to see a GP. The country went BERSERK! Govt hastily backed down. Everybody was livid, even my GP. How dare they try to perpetrate such injustice! Amount of the fee? Eight dollars. Australian.
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@visegrad24 Armenians, Greeks, Slacs, Kurds.. from history right up to today. Who do you think asked Trump to betray the US partnership with the Kurds - one of the best the US could have - so that his forces could go slaughter them?
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@mcmacker1
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@MadiValentine @TheBoredShow Won't matter, though. Patchwork shutdowns are like having a peeing section in a swimming pool.
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@flowermusickids @drdonsdizon Instead of just giving trillions to financial markets (nothing expected in return - no rebuilt water systems, electrical grid, broadband, education, etc.), they could have just given everyone 30k to say home for six weeks. In Queensland, we cared enough to do that mask and
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@NoFucksNic Best part, the list of comorbidities now runs 136 pages. Includes depression, seasonal allergies, caffeine dependency, headache... So all the people thinking society should just accept death for those with comorbidities are gonna be surprised to find themselves on the list
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@EuromaidanPress @yevhenfedchenko SEIZE THEM Redirect to Lviv Never too early to start the reparations payments...
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@JalynMcNeal Get inline skates. Just go to it. Paris is the best city in the world for it. Every Sunday afternoon there's a leisurely skate through city and alongside the river. Friday night is for the hardcore, with police on their BMW motorcycles blocking off the cross traffic
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@marla_vous @irene_genX What middle class?
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@SEGASister @LeftJaddi Somehow, other countries are able to offer higher ed tuition free. When they talk about the US competing internationally and militarily (particularly with China), how is that going to work with a poorly educated population. And that's one that really does trickle down, because
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@Gerashchenko_en Well, then... It's awfully reassuring that across that vast region are thousands upon thousands of nuclear weapons... I know! Then the Federation defeferates, lets get them to give up all those warheads by offering them a piece of paper saying they don't need such things because
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@WeLoveNATO Russia has also destroyed 46 Ukranian F-16s, 17 Ukrianian Eurofighters, 13 Ukrianian F-35s, four Ukrianian Gerald R Ford class aircraft carriers, three Ukrianian Aukus submarines, two Iron Beam systems, And a Ukrianian partridge in a Ukrainian pear tree
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@tonyver45 @DrJenGunter @thenephrologist Somebody sent me a bunch of death reports from VAERS (OpenVAERS), proving his point! But he hadn't actually read them. I did: Age: Unknown Sex:Unknown Vaccine Type: Covid Manufacturer:Unknown Lot: Unknown You get the idea. Don't the age, sex, or anything just somebody got a
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@AlnaouqA Yes war is horrible. Don't start one.
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@TimTheGodmocker @LinDixonBarr1 It's extortion. Insurance companies prevent you from getting health care, then force you to pay to get some of what they took away I'm gonna start a business where I hold your head underwater, then offer different plans for how often I let you up. Platinum Plus has a snorkel!
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Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger
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@MaxMckeown @Osinttechnical Hard to convince buyers on formidable armor units when when farmers keep towing them away on TikTok Your mighty airforce with the "most advanced fighter ever" can't defeat a small opposition with supposedly inferior jets Seeing all those husks of T90s isn't reassuring India
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@SEGASister @LeftJaddi more educated people means a society with different interests, discourse improves, even high school students are lifted - European exchange students often find even the AP courses are only covering what they did three years ago. Societal good, but would leave less Republicans...
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@UAWeapons Because they expected a police action. The country would fall immediately, then it would be about mopping up resistance and generally compelling the population to accept their subjugation
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Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger
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@GregoryJMosher @JoJoFromJerz The coup supporters had pushed through all the way to last line of defense. There were armed police waiting with weapons drawn, and the country's lawmakers just beyond. And she kept coming. If it helps you to understand, pretend it was a BLM protest and she was a transgender
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@CraigShipp @joshrogin They gave up those nukes for you. At your repeated requests. Based on your promises. You enjoyed 30 years of freedom from a vastly expanded nuclear threat because they trusted you. They did their part. Now your whimper and whine about when it's time to keep your word. So, the
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Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger
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@PhillipsPOBrien As an Australian, allow me to present the local version. Of course, it's now obligatory for me to say: That's not a technical... THIS is a technical.
Tweet media one
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@mcmacker1
Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger
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@charhorwood_ I live in Australia. . . (We acted like grown-ups, went through the lockdowns without haircut tantrums and complaining we were too delicate flowers to - gasp, horror - wear a mask. My state has been clear for months, tho NSW and Vic got clusters due to flights from US.)
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@bblock29 @twobigpuppies This is one of the biggest differences between left and right: we don't first check to see who's team bad people are on before deciding if what they did was wrong
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@ibdgirl76 believed her earlier, children wouldn't have lost their mother. Add to the usual issues being black and female. Drs "know those people just like to complain".
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@tonyver45 @DrJenGunter @thenephrologist Covid vaccine and died. Then it said a second person had also died soon after. But the reporter had no idea who it was or anything about them. These sorts of results are filtered out by the teams analyzing the data for pharmacovigilance signals. For the wingnuts, they're gospel
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Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger
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@CigarRegal @KyivIndependent Have to also include "Ukrainian Nazis", "be realistic", "persecuted Russian speakers", "2014 coup", and throw in George Soros, Hilary Clinton, and Marty Feldman. (I'm just sure he's involved somehow)
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Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger
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@CovertShores @wendy_dyers Final transmision: Russian Kilo class: We're sinking! We're sinking! Ukrainian Coast Guard: What are you sinking about?
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@DK_210 @TomlinMedia @Kasparov63 @ZelenskyyUa Your pearl-clutch appeasement isn't avoiding nuclear war. It's making it more likely. 20 years of concessions has brought us into the territory of nuclear war. You think more of the same will get us out. I believe Putin is
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Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger
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@br00t4lism I had a job right out of some surreal comedy. Placed there by an agency, I didn't know what I was doing there, and no one else did, either. This guy came through and I made fun of his shoes. We joked around for a few minutes. Found out he was a much feared VP. Everyone thought
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@LoveSkillsMusic @DrHarryThomas @NickytaLeb If it's really a serious question... well, hard to credit that it is. The answer would be, Tell me you don't understand VAERS without... Let's say we entered listening to the radio into VAERS. Now, 7K Americans die per day. Let's say half the people in the country listen to
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Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger
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@LarryBy @tonyver45 @DrJenGunter @thenephrologist You've never worked in a clinical setting, I take it. Despite this fantasy, Drs can't just write whatever they want on a death certificate. Also, no one has ever died of cancer, a heart attack, gunshot wound, or drowning; they die of hypoxia, exsanguation, shock, etc. But
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Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger
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@KathleenRMC1 @TalesOfStrength @davidcarr333 In 2018, Russia ran an antivax disinformation campaign against Ukraine. Though it did result in an measles outbreak, it's real purpose was to sew divisions, get people at each other's throats. And it worked. Much the Covid disinfo has the same fingerprints, right down to use of
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Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger
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@LarsonFanChris @ChristopherJM NATO would begin to arrange to consider the idea of issuing a declaration to urgently set up a meeting to have preliminary discussions on the idea of, possibly and only if it doesn't offend Mr Putin, looking into maybe forming a committee
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Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger
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@ProudSocialist The Tara Reid thing is just not credible. I think a lot of Biden's behaviour is creepy, and agree with your other points, but just way too much inconsistency on that.
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@visegrad24 Hey guys, all the help we gave you in fighting and ultimately dismantling apartheid... you're welcome. Nah, don't worry about reciprocating in any way. We were glad to stand up for what's right...
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Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger
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@Lemapal You mean, they recovered bodies of hostages?
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@LoveSkillsMusic @DrHarryThomas @NickytaLeb deaths being ignored, the system is actually so sensitive it can pick up extremely rare side effects. Eg, the less than 1 in 200,000 clotting events from J&J, which was enough to halt its use pending further investigation. So, no, thousands haven't been killed by Covid vaccines.
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@ibdgirl76 Patient went to ER repeatedly over 2 yrs. Was always sent home as just liking to complain, hoping for pain meds. After 2 yrs, someone new foolishly wasted time on a full workup for the chronic complainer... She had breast cancer. By then it had metastized. Had they
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Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger
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@K2thebizA @commgrad71 @LeahFarringto14 No, they get rewarded. Look at Mullenberg, who used more than enough two develop a whole new jet just to play financial games like stock buybacks. Leaving engineers attempting to kludge an obsolete airframe with current engine design... then fix instability with software. This
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Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger
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@LoveSkillsMusic @DrHarryThomas @NickytaLeb you learn in epidemiology - correlation is not causation. VAERS takes ANYTHING that happens after vaccination. Doesn't discriminate for plausible effects. Then skilled epidemiologist sift through for pharmacovigilance signals. Despite this nonsense of thousands of resulting
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Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger
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@AnnLHowarth @ArisKatzourakis What's the problem with just letting it rip, and become endemic? Worked out fine with smallpox. And rabies. Ebola. Yep, just the flu, bro
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@paigeinkansas Meanwhile, I got a hate speech violation for suggesting the following peace plan: Stop killing Jews
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Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger
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@mcgadyme @MorganV_Wellman @Ebonyteach It doesn't matter. Landlords will just get spigots of your tax money, whatever grants and tax credits or whatever their legislators can work out for them. In the name of "struggling families" Property is the great program for money laundering and forced wealth transfer upwards
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@PN_1984 Very much doubt you're an epidemiologist, have a PhD, or teach at any tertiary level. But it's the internet, you can pretend whatever you want. Well, don't let the door hit you. And then go check yourself in to the nearest psych unit.
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@YuliaTymosha Don't be ridiculous! The issue is whether an an action risks upsetting Putin. Or, heaven forbid, humiliating him. And it can't be against the rules because Putin makes all the rules Which we all must allow because NUCLEAR WAR! Twenty years of appeasement. Worked out so well.
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@DMokryk @yevhenfedchenko Yep, NATO needs to stop letting Putin set all the rules
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@br00t4lism we were friends, because no one had ever seen him joking with anybody. I was bizarrely untouchable. I would go find places to sleep, because I had nothing to do. I needed the money, so I stuck around. It was a financial services company and this department's role was helping
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@ariel_koko That was your terror group heroes that bombed the hospital. Immediately went from being a horrific war crime to a "whatever" in your eyes. You're awfully quiet about all those rapes...
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@queerBengali @avenaim @dollymad1812 I'm an orphaned progressive. I don't recognize these people cheering on genocidal freedom rapers who would enthusiastically murder them. When I pointed out that a map was historically inaccurate, I was swarmed with people telling me I needed to stop calling myself progressive.
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@HAnneH20 @math_rachel You know also that polio typically is very mild. Usually just a bit of a sore throat, and most people never even know they had it. Only 0.5% of cases make the jump attack the nervous system as poliomyelitis. And OPV can revert. Lucky the ivermectin bros weren't a force then
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@babeelu @jakescottMD @Red_Tory_ Right on! I feel the same about you those Employees Must Wash Hands signs in my restaurant toilets. I shouldn't be forced. My body, my temple. Anyway, here's your salad. I made it myself.
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@flowermusickids @drdonsdizon they lost even the bookings they already had as everyone canceled and the whole state was thrown into chaos. So many are now sick that we can't get supplies to or grocery stores. And the whole point - to develop herd immunity - is based in ideology, not science
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@theferocity @carrienewlove Thanks for being obnoxious
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@katmac95 @notmynypd @kathbarbadoro Yep. I know a guy who started out changing tubes in broken, then moved up, the company/conglomerate sending him on six-month training programs, programs that involved relocating during that time, with his entire family, all paid for. Started out essentially unskilled.
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@AutisticCoach_ @DrDavidInDC @joshualeifer Username checks out. See, when you support those who torture people, break all their limbs to facilitate raping them, then murder them and parade their bodies through the streets for your buddies to spit on and cheer, you kinda give up the whole struggle for peace and dignity
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@testfe1 @sumlenny Every attempt to avoid escalation has had the same outcome, escalation. Twenty years of avoiding escalation and we're talking about nuclear war. After 20 years, in which Putin has only ever escalated (Obama made the incredible concession of halting weapons shipments - Putin took
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@Resist_05 This is entirely fake. You people will fall for anything. It's actually IDF footage from a different location, firing on an attempted infiltration. And wasn't "leaked", it was put out by the IDF themselves. Grow up
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@mspdcali @RudyGiuliani @PamBondi Republican observers in every close state have been harassing the poll workers, challenging every. single. ballot. no matter how legit, saying signatures don't match, etc. Dem observers have to run around the room after them and dispute. It's causing chaos, which is the intent.
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@JalynMcNeal But also wrist guards. Absolutely and always, wrist guards
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@IAPonomarenko Spelling the end? My friend, you've ended it. Definitively. A hugely important aspect of world power is arms sales. Which for Russia is over. Hard to convince buyers about the mighty Russian armor units when they keep seeing farmers drag them away on TikTok.
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@DoYouEvenLif But Trump also came up with the cure. Fauci said to wait for more info on hxq. But Trump had a feeling and Fox banged away about the libs keeping the cure from us. So, Fauci looks ridiculous doesn't he, now that this is all over thanks to hxq and bleach and rectal light sticks?
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@YouAreLobbyLud Didn't put your hand up? Who cares? You're getting infected anyway! On assumptions that a) this will result in persistent immunity, b) that immunity be to all current and future variants, c) infection will be mild All well supported and likely correct Except for a, b, & c
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@JayinKyiv I hate to buy into the narraty that the West has Ukraine on a drip feed, but ffs, it's getting harder and harder to avoid. The jets bulsht is infuriating - first, expecting a NATO tactics offensive without air, then after a year of dithering, announcing the things but giving
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@Kasparov63 How can there not be some very clear tripwire redlines? In return for kowtowing to Putin's absurd demands (he can invite any other nation to help; he can use another country's airbase to attack; no country is allowed to let Ukrainian jets even take off for transit), it's insane
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@Gerashchenko_en In short, the nations who committed to doing so must shut this glorified school shooting down, shut it down now and shut it down right. The only reason for any of it is Putin thought he'd get away with it. "Three days to take Kyiv" and all that. That's it. Every other
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@K2thebizA @commgrad71 @LeahFarringto14 killed hundreds. It grounded the aircraft worldwide. Boeing was charged with conspiracy and fraud. They paid a settlement (just pay an extra tax and well let criminal behavior slide). Mullenberg, in charge of all this was fired. His punishment? $60 million. Or all the people
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Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger
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@br00t4lism rich people not pay their fair share of tax. I kept trying to quit, but I needed the money. I finally told them I want coming in any more. I got promoted. Went to a beautiful set of offices with all the art for the executives. I had a nothing to do, except answer about two
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@K2thebizA @commgrad71 @LeahFarringto14 engaged in all the financial crimes that resulted in the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. Their punishment? Billions of dollars of free money. That'll teach 'em!
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Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger
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@JayinKyiv They could've ended it in March if they'd been properly supplied. Of 2014. Even if they were gonna dither about the F-16s, they could've at least started the training part long ago, so if/when they finally got their sht together, the jets could've had an immediate impact. It's
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@mcmacker1
Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger
9 months
@giladerdan1 The question isn't, Why are you doing this? The question is, Why are you doing this alone? I guess the rest of the UN is too busy condemning the country with actually the best human rights record in the region, with a pluralistic, tolerant, multicultural democracy others can
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@mcmacker1
Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger
3 years
@MDinWaiting All too common. Much of med school is elitist hazing. Needs to be reformed yesterday. Make the first two years a separate MS - Biomedicine. That way, those who for whatever reason can't complete then, can still use their knowledge and contribute... maybe even get the MD later.
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@mcmacker1
Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger
2 years
@rodeopart3 Read the book. People think The Big Short is about plucky traders who figured out a clever way to make a killing. It's actually about rampant criminality of wholesale looting, which instead of being punished, the entire world was forced to reward
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@mcmacker1
Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger
3 years
@br00t4lism whatever graphics program. All the execs stood around watching as I sent drafts trip the printer, tweaked the layout, sent another draft. Went on for three hours, with several execs just watching the process. I have a friend who quit a similar, well paying job out of boredom
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@mcmacker1
Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger
2 years
@GarvinKnox @Tommoriarty16 It's a nightmare for everybody. RNs, MDs, surgeons... all hate it. All see massive money being siphoned out for protection racket insurance. MDs now spend > 50% of time dealing with ins issues, including long battles arguing with call centers for the treatment patients need.
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@mcmacker1
Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger
9 months
@ChakhoyanAndrew @elonmusk @MarioNawfal And? What's the problem? Worked out pretty well before, right? Never mind all those Czechoslovakians, who woke up to find "Peace for our time" meant they were now ruled by Hitler and subjects of Nazis. But, hey, it resulted in peace, right? How'd that work out again?
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@mcmacker1
Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger
2 years
@james1chas3 @NickytaLeb @Bob_Wachter @x2IndSpeculator Brilliant I think the authorities in New South Wales are taking you seriously - they made it near impossible to get any sort of testing done... then triumphantly announced a big drop in case numbers
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@mcmacker1
Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger
3 years
@br00t4lism calls a day. Really. I discovered my computer had Frogapult. I played Frogapult. I had another job working for execs. They walked around to each others offices to tell jokes. They had lots of empty time. One day, a bunch of dumb certificates didn't show up, so I made some in
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@mcmacker1
Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger
4 years
@WillBrunelle @danadonly Might be because you're wanting to talk about Katherine Bigelow instead someone actually worthy, like Greta Gerwig or Chantal Akerman
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@mcmacker1
Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger
8 months
@m7mdkurd @_SecondThought Nope It'll be a case study of how so many people were duped by disinformation and propaganda With distance, we'll finally be able to ask how so many people came to support a violently misogynistic, brutally repressive, murderously intolerant theocratic kleptocraticacy that
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@mcmacker1
Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger
2 years
@flowermusickids @drdonsdizon comply if a case showed up. Until last month, were Covid free. Then our insane new CHO implemented his plan to infect everybody, based on pseudoscience. (And all the hospitality and tourism venues who'd been screaming for the change found that instead of big holidays revenues,
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@mcmacker1
Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger
9 months
@narrative_hole This is in Odessa. Maybe there's a fully stocked grocery store in Mariupol like this at the moment, can't say. But this one's in Odessa. Not gonna fight about it - it's a trap. "Ukraine is totally destroyed; it's hopeless and we must deny them any help whatsoever!" Then you
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@mcmacker1
Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger
3 years
@cyansapphire333 @br00t4lism It was hard to stay awake
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@mcmacker1
Love child of Barry Commoner and Jack Geiger
3 years
@MissAveSE @revwendy3 @AlexCTaliadoros Well, Pfizer was developed in Germany by Turkish-German scientists, AstraZeneca in the UK. Given that this is now disproportionately affecting the black community, who yes still get inferior care, I hope you'll reconsider
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