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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Orwellian situation where many of the "anti-semitic" protesters are Jews and the "pro-Israel" protesters are explicitly anti-semitic nazis and apocalytpic evangelical freaks
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jesse
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We have two sets of speech rules in this country: one for the far right, which must be protected in case they turn their wrath on others, and one for everyone else, who are subject to the immediate punitive power of the state for any reason or no reason at all
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David Butler
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Ain’t nobody ready for the change this country is about to see if Scotus guarantees Trump’s immunity and ergo, the white house.
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David Butler
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Yup, what’s that line about them not wanting to be told what to do but having the right to tell others what to do?
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Chris Hayes
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In the scheme of human suffering this observation doesn’t much matter, I know, but just at the level of political optics: If the war in Gaza is still going in July, the DNC is going to be an absolute cluster. My god.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
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I am being told that Charlotte the pregnant stingray is expected to give birth any day now, which will put an end to one of the more ridiculous news stories of this year.
www.southernfriedscience.com/no-a-shark-d...
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Luke O'Neil
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Every time I google search something now they come back like I don't know man here are two or three things. I guess I could go look out back if you really want. Like me working at the video store in the 90s.
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David Butler
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Oooo, I have some options then, but a man needs a name
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David Butler
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Those other Christians have no power tho
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David Butler
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David Butler
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Most of these are even so small that we can’t even effectively see them. Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf and it’s the closest star to us, with an apparent magnitude of 11 whereas Venus is -4
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David Butler
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Well it’s not random like that. As she covers with respect to Betelgeuse, only some stars are big enough to go supernova and only a handful are even within a thousand light years of us, whereas most stars are too small to do much of anything beyond their own systems.
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David Butler
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Lots of star forming regions out there!!
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David Butler
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It’s clearly acceptable to everyone that it happens
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David Butler
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Oh I’m referring to any actual prosecution via Smith
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David Butler
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And Trump will do everything to sour the court by attacking everyone involved and disrupting it so that his supporters see it as a farce
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David Butler
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The ONLY saving grace is that Trump is likely to die in another year or so
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David Butler
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It happens even more now because managers use anti vaxxer rhetoric to shout down employees who mention being symptomatic or testing positive
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Michael
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in retrospect maybe this big yawning gap between "alleged crimes took place" and "investigation began" was a mistake
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David Butler
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I think I saw it said that it would be October before hearings would even take place
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David Butler
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I’d bet that they’re more specific than that and grant him just enough impunity on very narrow grounds so that Biden can’t use it
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Mark Copelovitch
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If you are too young to remember and want to know what it felt like to watch the 2000 election being stolen through the courts, in part by the very folks now sitting on this SCOTUS, this is what it felt it like.
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David Butler
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Trump will clearly become the next president and people need to prepare themselves
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Chris Hayes
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I am mad at myself for allowing myself to be shocked, but I’m legit shocked. It is as appallingly cynical as anything the court has done since Bush V Gore
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David Butler
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It’ll be conditional but I have no doubt that they will absolutely give it to him.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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the idea that the court might in anyway affirm trump’s immunity claim fills me with incredible dread
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David Butler
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So basically Trump has successfully used Scotus to avoid prosecution and will likely win 2024 and use the office to exonerate himself and go after everyone that tried to prosecute him. It’s all over folks.
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David Butler
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He’s basically won at this point. Everything is now effectively paused until the election no matter how they rule. Trump will end up the next President (again)
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David Butler
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It doesn’t seem to matter now since Scotus won’t even hear arguments until late April, won’t rule on it until June, and then any actual cases against him will push straight into the election. Trump has won
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David Butler
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Because that has worked so well before
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David Butler
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But the Palestinians have always acted in bad faith, lol
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David Butler
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So have Palestinians, lol
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David Butler
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I don’t disagree but what other choice do they have? They’ve never had any true national security and like it or not, they are there. This was the outcome of ww2 no matter the situation now and one side or the other gets displaced
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David Butler
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Their entire goal is arguably to play the ‘genocide’ card to get international pressure to take down Israel and ultimately wipe them out and while Israel may be playing into their hands on this, a ceasefire will end their plan and they’ll do it again
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David Butler
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Palestinians and Hamas were never going to settle and that’s why both sides have often intentionally nuked certain agreements and it’s why Hamas planned 10/7 to exacerbate the situation and they did so knowing that it would create a massive reaction and civilian deaths
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David Butler
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Sure and this arguably strengthened Israel. They still have much of the world’s sympathy after 10/7
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David Butler
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If you were Israel what would you do? Half the world already wants you dead and the other half just sees you as a tool for their religious or strategic agendas.
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David Butler
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Yes and Israel certainly recognizes this but also has no plans to return things to where they were precisely because of 10/7 and because that will just happen again in another few years.
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David Butler
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It has reached that point yes but Hamas still maintains a capable force and are still fighting
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David Butler
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Israel would only suffer more if they attempted a more measured response and Hamas would probably have better strength to continue attacks/rockets against them. It’s no easy situation
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David Butler
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There’s no great answer on how to fight a war against an entrenched enemy that blends seamlessly with the civilian population and does this to attain public outcry such as you are providing
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David Butler
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Oh fun so you do know some history. So you agree with me
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David Butler
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Lol the casualty rate is certainly high but please spare me this 1/2000 figure which can’t be sourced
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David Butler
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And while Israel may be fighting it with ww2 era sensibilities towards civilians it’s still a war.
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David Butler
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Israel is fighting and Hamas is fighting back. It’s a war.
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David Butler
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I swear you morons act like everything was fine until 6 months ago it’s hilarious
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David Butler
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What? One war what? Do you know fck all about the history here?
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David Butler
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:snort: jfc man you spend too much time online
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David Butler
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You think most of the world engages in wars without some civilian casualties being effectively necessary to achieve some goals? What do you think is happening here? We carpet bombed entire cities during ww2 and we still call those guys heroes.
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David Butler
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What?
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