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Taliban guys doing workout vids at the presidential palace was so funny
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:man the ~cultural appropriation~ discourse doesn't have the juice it used to — and thank god, those were some of the dumbest and most convoluted args ever argged my favorite claim of cultural appropriation ever was when I was looking at a seattle reddit after moving here and some "seattle native" white guy was whining about people moving in for tech jobs and then wearing flannel during winter.
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Spergin Morlock posted:my favorite claim of cultural appropriation ever was when I was looking at a seattle reddit after moving here and some "seattle native" white guy was whining about people moving in for tech jobs and then wearing flannel during winter. he's right
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my bony fealty posted:Taliban guys doing workout vids at the presidential palace was so funny All the people being like ha what a bunch of weaklings and it's like well they beat you... projecthalaxy posted:the fact that taliban guys are like "hey wait being a government bureaucrat sucks" is kinda funny I'm surprised nobody tried to spin that as a cultural victory
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Colonel Cancer posted:I appropriate from multiple cultures by making naan pizza. although I guess Italians don't count saw a crazy rear end white boi eating naan once by putting the chicken on a topping. Powerful moment.
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like you respect the culture enough to go out of your way and construct a tandoor in your backyard as a fun weekend activity with your kids. I really hope you and your family enjoyed eating it even though it doesn't look restaurant level.
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Spergin Morlock posted:my favorite claim of cultural appropriation ever was when I was looking at a seattle reddit after moving here and some "seattle native" white guy was whining about people moving in for tech jobs and then wearing flannel during winter. Wearing a flannelette shirt is true blue Aussie culture and I won't stand for these hoity toity middle class yank cunts stealing are culcha m8
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my bony fealty posted:Taliban guys doing workout vids at the presidential palace was so funny Also when they were heavily armed and on the duck boats, just having a blast
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the unabonger posted:lmao, is this about the state sponsered media tag? twitterites mass discovering D&D media literacy semantics for the first time
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Zipperelli. posted:Also when they were heavily armed and on the duck boats, just having a blast That was the Taliban navy, not the army.
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Colonel Cancer posted:I appropriate from multiple cultures by making naan pizza. although I guess Italians don't count you won't offend italians. it's naan-pizza
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Orange Devil posted:That was the Taliban navy, not the army. Taliban ftw
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Regarde Aduck posted:Taliban ftw
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Regarde Aduck posted:Taliban ftw
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https://twitter.com/compactmag_/status/1644276183062781956quote:For better or for worse, American presidents have been shielded from prosecution. The downside of this is that our leaders haven’t faced consequences for their crimes, despite having done far worse than Trump. But the upside is that political struggles are confined to the realm of politics and electioneering, and the justice system is protected from contamination by partisan vendettas. The American judiciary, for all its faults, is often the last protection people have against the overreach of permanent state bureaucracies and corporate power. With the Trump arrest, we have crossed a dangerous threshold.
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Youth Decay posted:(..) https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/transcript-of-david-frosts-interview-with-richard-nixon/ posted:(..)
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The law gets weaponized all the time to prosecute specific people in biased ways to pursue ideological ends, so having someone above the law is useful if they're acting in a way that opposes special interests, like imperialism
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my bony fealty posted:this terminally online moron seriously thinks the Taliban is watching twitter like a hawk to decide how to treat Westeners its literally their worldview, so why wouldn't it be the taliban's as well?
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gradenko_2000 posted:The law gets weaponized all the time to prosecute specific people in biased ways to pursue ideological ends, so having someone above the law is useful if they're acting in a way that opposes special interests, like imperialism Trump drone striked the Middle East as hard as Obama and had John loving Bolton whispering in his ear (resulting in the assassination of an Iranian general because Bolton had a war boner), he also raged about CHYNA and communism and blamed them for Covid. He's as bad as any American president and the fact that other presidents have gotten away with their crimes doesn't mean Trump should too.
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Youth Decay posted:Trump drone striked the Middle East as hard as Obama and had John loving Bolton whispering in his ear (resulting in the assassination of an Iranian general because Bolton had a war boner), he also raged about CHYNA and communism and blamed them for Covid. He's as bad as any American president and the fact that other presidents have gotten away with their crimes doesn't mean Trump should too. quote:By early summer 2017, the Joint Chiefs of Staff had become so worried that they held a meeting with Trump at the Pentagon at which they attempted to explain how America’s informal empire functions. Trump didn’t dig the presentation. Calling his generals “dopes and babies” and “losers,” he demanded to know why the United States wasn’t receiving free oil from the Middle East. “We spent $7 trillion; they’re ripping us off.… Where is the loving oil?” After the meeting, Trump continued to take an executive-branch-sized hammer to the elaborate political, diplomatic, economic, and military architecture of US global hegemony. Parenti's right
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Trump certainly opposed us interests when he let Israel change its capital to Jerusalem
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gradenko_2000 posted:The law gets weaponized all the time to prosecute specific people in biased ways to pursue ideological ends, so having someone above the law is useful if they're acting in a way that opposes special interests, like imperialism https://twitter.com/benjaminnorton/status/1641784451930763264?s=46&t=YjAdrC5z2HpTKJK1s-6pYw
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Trump opposes imperialism fuckin lol gently caress. for real he does
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indigi posted:Trump opposes imperialism fuckin lol gently caress. for real he does hey only muh dems are qualified to use double standards
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the author isn't trying to claim that trump is some ideological anti-imperialist, but that he has no understanding of how imperialism actually works. to him bringing the boys home from overseas, ending the TPP, etc, is just old fashioned partisan politics because he's kinda an idiot.
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Trump was a genuinely incompetent imperialist
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no he purposely worked to rein in American imperialism
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indigi posted:no he purposely worked to rein in American imperialism Golden retriever brain is the correct mode of analysis for the Trump presidency.
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Youth Decay posted:Trump drone striked the Middle East as hard as Obama and had John loving Bolton whispering in his ear (resulting in the assassination of an Iranian general because Bolton had a war boner), he also raged about CHYNA and communism and blamed them for Covid. He's as bad as any American president and the fact that other presidents have gotten away with their crimes doesn't mean Trump should too. I would support Trump's prosecution for war crimes but do not for this obviously politically motivated hatchet job.
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because he will never face even remotely proportional consequences I don't particularly care what Trump is prosecuted for as long as it annoys him, which this very clearly does
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This is how much MPs get paid https://twitter.com/Shuayb__/status/1644347522540814342?t=nkTCpSobYPCjW0Bdnjg4xA&s=19
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Jose posted:This is how much MPs get paid Candles: £3000
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Your take home pay is after tax, so he’s taken out income tax twice
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Endman posted:Your take home pay is after tax, so he’s taken out income tax twice Nah the second chunk is breaking the 85k down into subtotals although it doesn't help that he shifts from annual to monthly when talking about costs. The maths is the only thing right in that post though
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of course Trump supported and further entrenched the interests of the deep state. they would have killed him if it was otherwise.
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Including "Savings" into expenses is some big brain poo poo, though, having 1.9k a month "left over" is more than some people get paid monthly.
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Party Boat posted:Nah the second chunk is breaking the 85k down into subtotals although it doesn't help that he shifts from annual to monthly when talking about costs. The maths is the only thing right in that post though Turns out after I deduct all of my expenses and savings from my wages there's comparatively little money left.
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Does UK have baller politicians who spend every dime they get on cool parties?
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War and Pieces posted:Does UK have baller politicians who spend every dime they get on cool parties? depends how "cool" you consider pedophile sex parties
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those are subsidized by the state I would assume
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