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9 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
France, noted moral compass of the West
“I don’t like it and I don’t wanna hear about it” is an international viewpoint.
What’s “why we gotta talk about all that” in French
The interesting thing about this piece is how few people appear to have read more than the first third, as a friend noted.

This is repression of thought.

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Occasionally QAnon attempts to veil itself in the sheath of “we just care about child welfare” but actually this is ... well, this is about it.
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Lord knows I love the passive voice but
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I have some quibbles with the @jacobinmag’s piece on QAnon for various and sundry reasons but I think this is accurate — QAnon is a statement of faith, unmoored from reality but centered in an idea of heroism and righteousness. jacobinmag.com/2021/01/q-anon…
My biggest objection is the piece’s conceit that the solution is political:
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Real heads know that Annapurna is the spot, if by “spot” you mean “thing I don’t want to do”
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@edsbs and I once had a weeks long discussion about horrific mountain climbing disasters and Annapurna came up ... a lot.
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This retconning of Calhoun will be news to some: theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-e…
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Perhaps I am alone in this but I argue that marriage equality was largely used as a dishonest cudgel by people who had no genuine views on the issue, not an issue that spoke to large swaths of America.
A whole swath of people gained fame and infamy for their full throated opposition to marriage equality and they were abandoned the second it stopped working.
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John Wick: Parabellum setting a knife fight in a knife museum is just a work of wonder.
There’s a moment when everyone realized they’re surrounded by knives and it’s so good
These movies may have the best understanding of set pieces of any action franchise.
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