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Its secret is to deal with the people not as individuals but as crowds. The message to the crowd is a series of simple, basic, memorable words — nation, people, blood, family, comrade, friend, home, soil, bread, work, strength, hope, life, fight, victory, birth, death, honor, beauty. The Party is set up as having a monopoly on giving the people these virtues and good things. To a people whose immediate past has been hard, muddled and apparently irremediable, simple emotional words have an immense, reverberating authority. But most of all the little man who is lost and friendless in a complex, lonely modern society is treated as important, if only in the mass.

-Life magazine 1938 on  "the real effectiveness of Nazi demagogy"

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Third country deportations with no due process are wrong, period, and we will keep fighting these illegal actions in court.”

True, but also... How much are these flights to South Sudan by way of Djibouti costing taxpayers?

That sounds way more expensive than just keeping these specific convicted felons locked up

And they just turn them loose once they get to south Sudan? Sure, it's far off but it isn't exactly the moon. They can go pretty much anywhere they want

They're essentially just releasing covicted felons on the world

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I'm with you. I can't go a day without a status update on the situation in Ukraine. With a close eye on what Putin and Trump are doing, not saying, actually doing.

In the same day Trump will say he's considering more sanctions on Russia, while simultaneously he's actually loosening other restrictions on Russia in other ways. We gotta keep his feet to the fire on this, he's more than happy to allow support for Ukraine to erode over time

It can be helpful to pay attention to what those in their orbits are saying (ex. Lukashenko, Orban), sometimes they'll let something important slip

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Look up the word corrupt in the dictionary and it's just a picture of Ken Paxton

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Extremely stupid and extremely well armed

I'd trust a monkey with a shotgun more than these jackasses

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Trump's so senile he doesn't know what decade it is. He probably thinks Sean Patrick Duffy is actually just Patrick Duffy from the 90s sitcom Step by Step

Which still makes the pick just as weird as picking Sean Duffy while knowing full well who he is

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I was crazy once.

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It's the PFAS cartel

They've got a lock on the market

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Gonna have to sue every major airport as well

PFAS is in the fire suppressant

Might be easier to sue the source, the fire suppressant companies so they have to find an alternative material

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Thief: "Whers MA daM MOPHINE!"

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“With all due respect, throwing around the term genocide in relation to Gaza is deeply offensive to many Jewish people who have suffered actual genocides.

Yes, solid reasoning. New genocides can't exist because there were old ones

Pretty sure there have been many genocides since WW2

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New York Times bestselling Author Michael Lewis is, as one interviewer recently put it, “a kind of guru of our age”.

This is because, in books like Moneyball, The Big Short and Going Infinite, not to mention his own podcast, he has chronicled some of the big social and economic seachanges of our time - from the global financial crisis, to the cryptocurrency market, and how online gambling companies have managed to wage something of a “war against young men”.

Sometimes, he even seems to anticipate the sea changes. Last year, he all but predicted Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE manifesto, when he decided to investigate what American civil servants actually do. And the catastrophic risks that might come from decimating the federal government.

Today, Michael Lewis, on all of this, and what he thinks comes next for the American government. Plus, whether he thinks our own prime minister is “gutless” for delaying a ban on TV gambling advertising.

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They want your content to make their site worth visiting, they just don't want you

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... the Big Ugly Bill is enacted with the following provision, now hidden in the bill:

“No court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued….”

Translated: No federal court may enforce a contempt citation.

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