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what y'all who aren't from Tarrant County don't understand is what this citizen is doing is gangsta checking him
Tarrant County voters aren't buying the GOP's claims that they're cutting polls to save money. “I’d love to know what you all think our tax dollars are for. They are to serve us and I can’t think of a better use of taxpayer money than to encourage and support the democratic process.”
"I think that for me, personally, sex isn't that interesting..." oh GOOOOD for YOOUUU
Look im not gonna be big schoenbrun defender here but I dont love seeing two dudes review a movie that, to me, is super bluntly about how women experience sexual alienation and dissasociation following sexual trauma, and have their main take on it be this
Prosecute American war criminals
Today marks one year of US airstrikes on small boats allegedly transporting drugs. Almost no evidence has been presented about the dozens of strikes have killed more than 200 people. Strikes restarted last month following a pause in July. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
another win for physical media which nobody "reasonable" can deny looks and feels like buying the thing, not that I agree with the argument in the first place and it goes without saying you could never steal from corporations more than they've stolen from you
Sony says "reasonable consumers" know they don’t own the digital PlayStation games they buy. It argues that it's "not plausible" to suggest that when they buy a digital game they actually believe they're "obtaining ownership" of it. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sony-sa...
Love hearing people justify their compromises by insisting you (will) have to, too. "Be there or be square" from all the people you don't want to be with.
Gal Gadot defends starring in the ‘Bitcoin’ movie which features AI sets and lighting: “I did not want AI to have anything to do with my performance. We had to protect that […] The train has left the station. You’re going to work with it or be out of the game completely.”
The shows were worse in ways that often dissolve, e.g. gay rep is less explicit but no less rich, tech standards were no less make-do, formulas showed but god I miss writers. I remember the sense that we could do better, and we did (Sopranos), but TV is further from that now than in 1993
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Religion should be safe legal and rare
Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...
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Rowling is the ultimate proof that we cannot have billionaires. She technically made her fortune without fucking over the working class. A borderline miracle. And yet, she remains a monster that wants to make the world worse. We can either have billionaires or freedom, not both.
This is Rowling's pinned tweet, and yet, just this week, she is funding legal cases against Féile Belfast and Amnesty International for exercising their free speech and fair opinion. She is using her massive wealth to terrorise these orgs into compilance, because she doesn't believe in free speech.
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Mr. Douthat didn't get where he is by a keen analysis of the world around him
Genuinely bizarre that Douthat would give up the cushiest job in journalism, where management clearly loves him, to join a newsroom whose defining attributes are its internal dysfunction and the constant stream of embarrassing leaks from disgruntled staffers.
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Read books about the Nazi officers and you'll see in detail how for years and years they were "just" doing deportations. It's not a slippery slope to evil. It is itself a part of the whole process of evil.
so odd that for decades deportation has been sold as somehow less violent than outright ethnic cleansing when it is simply a means of ethnic cleansing, you'd have to be either a real jackass or an asshole to buy that lie