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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 12h

[Thick Manchester accent] ”What you mean I can’t build more than one story on me house?! What kinda cockwopple nonsense is this, mate?
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So um, I can make the roof whatever daft shumpywomp shape I like, yeah?”

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 22h

Saw "One Battle After Another," it's pretty shallow and overrated.

The acting and cinematography are EXCEPTIONAL, but the plot and jokes feel more exploitive rather than critical of the current situation with ICE. Overall, more of a cheap homage to Tarantino than a quality PTA film.

B/B+.

Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 2d

A genocide with genocidal intent. Accurate.

StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d

Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 2d

But also, pilgrimage to a geographic place and affiliation with a nation state are two separate things.

A nation has an army and kills people. A religion and culture do not. This would imply that all muslims have an innate and religious connection to Saudi Arabia. They do not.

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 2d

Trying to buy votes? Do your f—king job and stop being a human GPT for silicon valley billionaires.

Adding to the deficit AND increasing inflation with checks isn’t going to solve anything.

Abolish ICE.
Limit executive branch powers.
Defund Israel.
Protect lgbTq and all ppl’s EQUAL rights.

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 2d

As always, Teen Vogue stepping up where NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, CNN, the Atlantic, and The Economist fail.

Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 2d

“It often feels like it's a dystopian world that we live in, and the only thing that is real is Gaza and what's happening there.”

Politics editor @leximcmenamin.com speaks with 23-year-old journalist Plestia Alaqad about her book, leaving Gaza and the impact all of it has on young people.

Journalist Plestia Alaqad Is Publishing Her Diaries From Gaza: "A Dystopian World"

"Every time I read it, I just feel disbelief — is this real? Did I really live that? Are there still thousands of people in Gaza living that?”

www.teenvogue.com

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 2d

The dude is a pea brain.

Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 3d

More experts say Israel's offensive in Gaza constitutes genocide

The accusation is vehemently denied by Israel, while others have rejected it or said only a court can make that determination.

www.pbs.org

Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 3d

Fool! Only a mech can uproot a tree and hurl it at a jet, or use a small car as a shield against hellfire missiles! Only a mech can crouch behind a building to avoid detection and then grab enemy combatants and fling them like darts against helicopters. You obviously don’t understand mech mechanics.

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 3d

Oh goodness. He’s upset that we didn’t do more war crimes in Vietnam or Afghanistan.

War crimes, lawlessness, and even genocide, are diseases and they are contagious. It’s a very dangerous time to be alive.

Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 3d

What I don’t understand is how youtube, facebook, and instagram somehow escape unscathed. They’re not responsible for people’s posts, but surely if they’re enabling all these scams and profiting off of them (by selling ads), there is a civil case here.

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 3d

Can we talk about how so many of these ICE f—ks are ppl of colour?

As a person of colour, may I just say that I’m deeply embarrassed by these pieces of s—t. They must hate looking in the mirror each morning, only to be reminded that they’re not white.

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 4d

We are here, in part, because guys like Schatz would never say this to "ezra klein" - a rich media guy - but somehow think "adam" is suppose to be dismissed and ignored but also do unpaid comms work for them

Lifelong Democrats for Zohran #ImWithHim 🌊🌊🌊 @vodkasnowflake.bsky.social · 4d

brutal lol

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe by “app” he means the 100m in ads that persuaded morons to vote for a kleptocrat.

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 4d

Mahmoud Khalil wants to have a word.

Or is it okay to imprison people for months simply because of their speech if they’re permanent LEGAL residents? Could it be that there is a slope, it’s slippery, and we’re on it?

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 4d

Ok, but “genocide” experts said you were wrong about this one. The problem with saying the experts are wrong and you’re right is that you dilute truth in the commons and spit in the face of the enlightenment.

If only someone had written a book on diminishing expertise :(

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 4d

People trying to conflate Israel, a nation, with Jews, a people, do it in bad faith. JVP, arguably the most active Palestinian liberation org in the US, is Jewish.

Jews Against Zionism: The American Council for Judaism, 1942-1948 on JSTOR

This is the first full-scale history of the only organized American Jewish opposition to Zionism during the 1940s. Despite extensive literature on the Zionist m...

www.jstor.org

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 4d

I think this is pretty good clickbait though. The typical uninformed American (a.k.a. moron) will click to see if it was MS-13 or Osama Bin Laden’s ghost who did this awful thing. When they see it was ICE, they will have to reconcile their feelings of anger with what Fox News has told them.

Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 4d

I think the US has always had a problem with the Enlightenment. Most of the original colonists were superstitious morons who left England because they weren’t allowed to burn enough witches. If it weren’t for the Scottish enlightenment and those colonists, the US would be like Saudi Arabia.

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 4d

Nothing, nothing in this dark excuse for a civilization deflates a tyrant faster than a woman putting her body between the tyrant and his prey. Especially if the woman looks like the tyrant’s mother or sister or daughter. They shrink from the shame.

This woman‘s bravery must be recognized.

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t think Europeans realize how many (US) Americans are just plain stupid. Plenty of Europeans are dumb, but the sheer volume of ignorant people in the US has no analog in the industrialized world.

It‘s particularly bad in red and purple states.

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 4d

2012 Me: Dude.

Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 4d

I dunno who shuffled those cards—Jesus or Jesus’ friend—but they forgot to take out the jokers.

A joker in a deck will ruin a perfectly good night of smoking, drinking, snorting cocaine, shooting up H, and playing blackjack.

Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 4d

Gimme a break. White collar millennials are some of the laziest mfers in existence. The only thing they're good at is gaming the corporate system to get paid for bullshit jobs that create zero value (i.e. "director of policy brand engagement strategy"). They are the ezra kleins of the labour force.

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 4d

That’s the thing with bad policies. They make a mockery of civilization.

Son of Eric @spiritof44.bsky.social · 4d

A BLIND ELDERLY man using a mobility cane is ARRESTED for holding a sign which read "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

#PalestineAction #GazaGenocide

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