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Threadbane

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classical guitar, chess, golf, duplicate bridge, etymology, semantics, yoga, physics, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, Homeric Greek
Environmentalist Pothead Luddite Polymath
Club of Rome -> Limits To Growth
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DrALJONES, to egypt
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    @timo21 @DrALJONES
    The Prince of Darkness even has his own army, Blackwater Security.

    shoq, to random
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    I’m also really tired of talking about this as a Republican/MAGA problem. It’s also a batshit stupid Americans problem. I just talked to two college-educated neighbors, fundamentally progressive, and quite well off, who aren’t going to vote because “both sides say the same kinds of BS.” Argh!

    Threadbane,
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    @shoq
    College isn't what it used to be by any means. When I took my degree in '66, a bachelor degree required two semesters of a slide-rule science (physics, chemistry, biology, or geology), two years of English, two semesters of calculus and analytic geometry, and two years of a foreign language. A degree meant you knew something. College today teaches intramural sports and some marketable skill or another, eg, a lawyer need not know anything at all except law, viz. the SCOTUS.

    br00t4c, to random
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    'It Literally Is Insane': Christiane Amanpour Stunned By Trump's NATO Comments

    https://www.mediaite.com/news/it-literally-is-insane-christiane-amanpour-stunned-by-trumps-nato-comments/

    Threadbane,
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    @br00t4c
    I wish the media would come to the realization that "it" isn't "literally insane", but the man who wants to give Europe to Russia is literally, actually, clinically insane. Reporters should be calling out Citizen Trump not simply over his "mental lapses", but his long history of criminally insane behavior, which includes rape, fraud, and the people he murdered by his intentional exacerbation of the covid pandemic.

    Just say it! Citizen Trump is insane. What's he going to do, sue?

    DrALJONES, to Israel
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    @DrALJONES @israel
    There has never been a real democracy in Israel.

    DrALJONES, (edited ) to Israel
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    @DrALJONES
    We (the US gov't) has long been on the wrong side of the LAW in Palestine. The Geneva Conventions were ratified by Congress and are part of the US law code as a result. The Geneva Conventions give occupied countries the right to resist military occupation by any means necessary, so for decades the US has been breaking its own laws by supporting the sadistic Zionists' military occupation.

    Keeping a Zionist on as Secretary of State just asks for trouble in the Middle East.

    panamared27401, to random
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    Joy Reid is pointing out that SCOTUS has said that abortion has to be decided by the states, when the Constitution is silent on the issue, but elections can't be decided in the states, where the Constitution calls for them to be.

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    @libramoon @panamared27401
    Indeed. Also not mentioned: athlete's foot, tooth decay and incontinence.

    GottaLaff, to legal
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    Via Anna Bower:

    After moved to extend pre-trial deadlines in the classified case, files a scathing response.

    The defendants “will stop at nothing to stall the adjudication of the charges against them by a fair and impartial jury of citizens,” the special counsel writes.

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    @GottaLaff
    "The defendants “will stop at nothing to stall the adjudication of the charges against them by a fair and impartial jury of citizens,” the special counsel writes."
    Neither will Judge Aileen Canon.

    DrALJONES, (edited ) to uk
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    @DrALJONES
    So, hunger is worse somehow than just blowing them up? The US is already complicit in the Zionist atrocities, and has been for decades.

    Mary625, to random
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    Israel is an apartheid government causing genocide. The US is no better.

    while there are still children alive in Gaza

    Threadbane,
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    @Mary625
    Secretary Blinken should have been replaced on Oct 8. Putting the Zionist son of a Zionist family in charge of ANY MidEast policy is shoddy thinking. Given the perennial situation in Israel and Palestine, he should never have been appointed to begin with. The US does NOT need a Zionist (aka, theo-fascist) working in the State Department in any capacity.

    Threadbane, to random
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    I see they put lawyer and political adviser, John Podesta, in charge of advising Biden about climate change. I'm surprised they didn't hire a famous football coach or maybe a 4 star chef or Grammy award winner to explain atmospheric physics and the Earth's heat budget, along with the effects of greenhouse gases.

    Threadbane,
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    @Mary625
    I kid you not. John Kerry, by virtue of his Navy training, actually might have known something about global warming, but it's a sure bet that Podesta is a scientific empty pocket. Obviously, Biden thinks global warming is a PR problem. Let's face it, lawyers are taught absolutely zero science in law school. Nada. Nothing. They're even taught to deny science in courtrooms to win cases for their clients. Lawyers are intellectually completely divorced from physical reality.

    br00t4c, to random
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    Elise Stefanik busted deleting statement calling for January 6 rioters to be prosecuted

    https://www.rawstory.com/elise-stefanik-jan-6/

    Threadbane,
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    @br00t4c
    I find it very bizarre that rawstory..com cannot be reached all of a sudden, because i ran across this story earlier today with a link to alternet.com, with the error, "This site cannot be reached."
    Paranoia strikes deep. Maybe Stefanik is planning a coup using a LLM to reinvent herself in cyberspace.

    Anybody know what's happening?

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    @slcw @br00t4c
    Yeah. I'm figuring it was a coincidental glitch with routers and such. NO problems right now.
    Thanks!

    hishamzerriffi, to climate
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    My students just learned that the greenhouse effect and role of CO2 was figured out over a century ago. I think they're a little ticked off and confused as to why they've been left with this mess. Fair.

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    @dozymoe @martinvermeer @simonzerafa @hishamzerriffi
    But not coal, that ran the steamships, steam locomotives, and industrial steam engines.

    Teri_Kanefield, to random
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    Texas Governor Abbott signals that he may (will?) defy the Supreme Court order regarding the border.

    https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/border/2024/01/24/475398/governor-abbott-signals-potential-defiance-of-supreme-courts-border-ruling/

    In 1830, Andrew Jackson, as president, refused to heed a Supreme Court order regarding the removal of Native Americans from Georgia.

    Jackson's refusal gave us the Trail of Tears.

    Jackson remained popular.

    The similarity: Both defiances are deeply racist.

    The difference: In 1830 only white men could vote.

    https://history.state.gov/milestones/1830-1860/indian-treaties#:~:text=President%20Jackson%20nonetheless%20refused%20to,and%20Henry%20Clay%20in%201835.

    Threadbane,
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    @Teri_Kanefield @qotca @Dseitz @raphaelmorgan @BruceMirken @accretionist @joeinwynnewood
    Do not permit FOX News or Newsmax to be played in the hallways, waiting rooms, barracks, VA hospitals, hospital rooms, prisons, or offices in any government facilty.

    lauren, to random
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    I'm sure tourists will be just RUSHING to Oklahoma City to visit what is supposed to be built as the U.S.'s tallest building there. I mean, all those fantastic views from the observation deck of ... uh ... yeah.

    Putting a building like that in an area where there is so much open space epitomizes so much of what is wrong with this country.

    Threadbane,
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    @lauren
    The air conditioning costs will be astronomical, but I doubt if anybody involved believes in global warming. When it's 130 in the shade this summer in OK City, they might have to evacuate the building.

    GottaLaff, to random
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    Oy.

    Via Scott MacFarlane:

    Asked by CNN if he agrees w claim that defendants are hostages, Sen (R-SC) answers, "I believe that our DOJ should allow a jury of our peers to make the decisions"

    (Approx. 140 people have been convicted at trial, 700+ opted for guilty plea)

    Scott also told CNN about the Jan 6 mob: "99% of the people who showed up were there to exercise their first amendment rights.

    (Of the 1200+ defendants, 450+ have been charged with assaulting police)

    Threadbane,
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    @Snowshadow @lednabwm @GottaLaff
    Not just the military, but DoD contractor corporations' buildings ( Raytheon, Lockheed-Martin, Rockwell Int., as well as DoD civilian installations, like Rome Lab, the Navy Yard, the National Security Agency, etc. It's like having the Pentagon having piping Tokyo Rose into the hallways, TASS broadcasts during the Cold War, or Baghdad Bob when we were invading Iraq. It's psychopathic.

    randahl, to random
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    4 out of 5 Iowans claim to be Christian. Yet going into the voting booth, 48 percent intend to vote for the most immoral presidential candidate in US history.

    Wild.

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    @mckra1g @randahl
    Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them. - Barry Goldwater

    DrALJONES, to Israel
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    @DrALJONES
    "The Congo proposal "illustrates the deeply corrupt ideology that Zionism has become" under Netanyahu:"
    Zionism has always been a sadistic and corrupt ideology. You can't give Netanyahu credit for all this evil. The Zionists have been murdering and displacing Palestinians for almost 80 years, and now that the US has given them permission, bombs and ammunition to ratchet up the action, they've transformed their land grab into a full bore genocide.

    Sherifazuhur, to israel
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    Middle East Eye
    𝐈𝐬𝐫𝐚𝐞𝐥𝐢 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐬 '𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝' 𝐈𝐂𝐉 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐈𝐬𝐫𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞

    Israeli officials are concerned the International Court of Justice (ICJ) could charge the state with genocide in Gaza, Haaretz reported on Monday.

    According to the Israeli daily, a senior legal expert dealing with the case has warned the military leadership that there is a "real danger" the court will issue an injection calling on Israel to halt its military action in Gaza.

    The military and the state attorney's office are now preparing to deal with the complaint filed by South Africa on Friday. A hearing will take place Monday at the foreign ministry. @israel

    https://nitter.net/middleeasteye/status/1741713566552740001?s=12&t=uM8me4uwdP7D0z4nanVVuw

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    @Sherifazuhur @israel
    Not to be too cynical, but what does Israel care if they're charged with genocide? The US will keep sending the Zionists bombs to drop on Gaza and ammunition to kill the people on the West Bank with or give them money to buy them from Turkey who has a ton of US weaponry.
    I'd like to see the US charged with genocide, personally, for supporting the Zionists. This is what happens when you have an actual Zionist as Secretary of State.

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    There is no reason to support any of the governments in the Middle East, including Israel and Turkey. The Middle East offers us nothing at this point but an expense and an international political headache, because we are now totally fossil fuel independent and we need the ME for absolutely nothing. (We export as much oil as we import, so we should stop importing AND exporting oil entirely.) We should do a Vietnam, declare victory and leave - completely. Let them fight without us.

    Threadbane, to random
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    Allowing Nikki Haley to spout nonsense in front of a classroom of impressionable children should be punishable as child abuse.
    What a moron. The abominable Chris Christie is the only Republican POTUS contender with a brain. She can't even state the standard "the South will rise again" line, that it was a matter of states' rights including the right of citizens to own slaves if their state allowed it) .

    maddad, to random
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    Biden Campaign TORCHES Trump Rally In Blistering Hitler-Invoking Condemnation

    keeps ranting like and we all know how that ended for Germany.
    We can't let this become POTUS ever again.

    We can stop him in his tracks.
    All we need to do is VOTE them out. If they are not elected, they have no power.

    https://www.mediaite.com/news/biden-campaign-torches-trump-rally-in-blistering-hitler-invoking-condemnation/

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    @maddad
    The only people who care or even know about Hitler are in their 80s and 90s now. WWII is as remote for most people as the Civil War. The press is really jumpin' on this as a gotcha for Trump, but it isn't. I daresay that most of the people who are aware of Hitler these days are PRO Hitler, like a considerable fraction of both Congress and the GOP base. The White Xian Nationalists are flying swastikas on their pickup trucks.

    Free_Press, to news
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    Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., filed a complaint Friday alleging judicial misconduct by a federal judge who has overseen various Jan. 6-related cases.

    Stefanik, a staunch ally of Donald Trump and member of House GOP leadership, formally requested an ethics investigation into U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell over what the New York Republican called a “highly inappropriate political speech” by the judge in November.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/elise-stefanik-files-complaint-judge-ruled-jan-6-trump-cases-rcna129878

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    @Free_Press
    For my money, Stefanik is one of the top ten most evil people in Congress. There are a lot of morons, straight up criminals and Xian crazies, but Elise is a Machiavellian psychopath.

    DrALJONES, (edited ) to Palestine
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    @DrALJONES
    The idea that European and American Jews have some sort of genetic linkage to the Palestinian land they've invaded is wholly bogus. The invaders have barely any Hemitic/Semitic DNA left at all, being mostly German, Polish, Russian, etc. Giving away Palestine to the northern European Jews is the biggest mistake the UN ever made.

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