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Here is a thing everyone should really come to terms with early on in life: Someone can be very nice in all their personal interactions with you and still be a bad person.
Corollary: You have NO IDEA whether your acquaintances are good people. At most you know they seem to behave well in the limited contexts where you encounter them. Bad people do that all the time.
Though corollary 2: People can say incredibly dumb shit and be decent in other respects. We’re not reducible to our worst moments.
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Had the same thought: a face-saving way to surrender in a game of shutdown chicken that’s not going as he hoped. Concede the funding fight on the pretense he can just do it by executive fiat, then either fume in mock shock & horror when it turns out he can’t, OR...
...scrounge some pittance from unallocated funds, and pretend that the wall got built, as he already does half the time anyway.
Which shouldn’t be read as understating what a gross, impeachable abuse the attempt would be.
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There’s a very weird argument here. McCarthy claims a special counsel was unnecessary b/c there was no reason to think career DOJ officials wouldn’t be capable of supervising the investigation adequately. He brings up the obvious counter: Trump keeps brazenly trying to interfere!
The response to THIS is to recite the claim that a president’s exercise of his powers can never constitute the crime of obstruction. But even if we pretend that’s true, it’s not really responsive.
A president nakedly trying to pressure his subordinates to squelch or whitewash investigation that might implicate himself or his allies OBVIOUSLY calls into question the ability of career staff to carry it out, whether or not the president’s corrupt influence is criminal.
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Having polished off the last of Ruiz Zafon’s “Cemetery of Forgotten Books” tetralogy, I decided to reread the first, “Shadow of the Wind,” in Spanish. Lucia Graves is a brilliant translator, but my god is the original prose miles better. And I loved it in English.
Among other things, the first line of the first book is a naked Marquez riff that I somehow missed reading it in English.
Actually the middle two books would probably benefit most. The first sold itself on plot when I thought the prose was workmanlike. The 2nd & 3rd didn’t really, and would be different animals if they’re this well written.
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Here’s the thing: people who really go through life as nonwhite don’t just check “white” because they think that’s what they’re supposed to say. Thread.
This is why Latines keep frustrating US Census efforts to categorize us, marking “other” in large numbers.
When I fill out forms like this, I put “American Indian” (the closest they have for Native from South America) and “Other.” I don’t mark white for my Jewish ancestry, because my experience of Judaism is not as a white person. #intersectionality
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There's one silent Virus that has infected everyone in the world and destroying lives, but not many are aware of it.

Everyone here should know and protect themselves from that monstrous Enemy.

I'm talking about FOMO - Fear Of Missing Out

In this thread I'm going to go in depth
You probably know what it means on a shallow level, but I'm going to describe exactly how it affects the modern person.

So how does FOMO affect your life?
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Breaking news- People have fun in the real world while you're online.
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One thing everyone needs to remember about the swamp drain. Probably 95% of the people draining the swamp right now behind the scenes were part of the swamp at some point.
Here is the thing everyone forgets. I'm not saying this Trumps situation. A situation anyone can get into. That situation is this globalist/Satanist cabal has been in power for a long time. Decades. They had their hooks sunk in even before JFK was president.
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(More likely UI than food, but you know this already.)

It’s my first time here. Please comment away and/or point out my cultural insensitivities!
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