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i knew ozempic was legit when a bunch of disparate global dictators showed up in 2023 having lost 100 lbs

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Sorry for the excessive politics posting, when school starts up again this will basically just be a books account

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is this a rhetorical question? It's p. obvious

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leftwick @lefttwick.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

matt yglesias, noah smith, and that armand guy truly believe that they can convince republicans to moderate on immigration by extolling the virtues of low wage asian tech workers. this is foundational to their worldview

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the Vivek-Elon tech bro wing is very obviously going to lose this mock gop civil war and it's pretty funny no one except for silicon valley and neolib pundits actually believes that illegal immigration is the problem but legal high skilled immigration is good. elite politics with no constituency

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Sami Gold @souljagoyshmulik.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

What these people want isn’t an education, it’s societal prestige. You can get just as fine an undergraduate education at University of Vermont as you can at USC or Yale, especially in liberal arts, but people don’t market themselves as getting a degree from UVM Fund👏the👏colleges👏

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Being a nerdy kid who was obsessed with Pokémon design/lore is surprisingly pretty handy..."did you know Infernape is just Sun Wukong" is a good conversation starter for a certain kind of person in my age cohort lol

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yes? if you're an educated adult who has never heard of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms i reserve the right to look down on you

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might just be a product of Jews being the most visible and influential diaspora in the west for centuries, but it's interesting how anti zionist Jews are essentially the only really prominent international dissident community like there's no equivalent "Turks for Kurdistan" or "Azeris for Armenia"

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Genuinely don't grasp how anyone can watch Whiplash and think that Fletcher is supposed to be admirable lmao

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between this and Oppenheimer I appreciate Nolan's commitment to making movies i can watch with my dad

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Doesn't know that she's supposed to refer to it as The Democrat Party yet. lackadaisical grifting effort smh

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the cinemasins-ification of criticism is such a cancer

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beyond anything else it's funny to not have the sufficient self awareness to realize that every empire in the history of humanity spoke like this

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kinda crazy that the pokemon anime got away with a character as obviously gay as James for 25 years without some kind of conservative moral panic tbh

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was gonna get chinese but it felt too cliche, a little passe even. got thai instead...innovative, fresh

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leftwick @lefttwick.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

i've been laughing at the twitter screenshot of people who have never heard of the odyssey before all day we're so fucked anyway merry christmas to the girls/gays/misc

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might just be a social media exclusive thing but tbh I've already been seeing variants of this

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leftwick @lefttwick.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

somehow watching Buffy for the first time ever and this show really is incredibly fun

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That's my point though- populism is an affect and not a coherent set of policy positions. I think the NLRB stuff and Lina Khan were great but the sheer fact that I'm familiar with it demonstrates that I'm in the 1% most politically obsessed people in the country

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Rene @trevorhistory.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Posting catnip for the most obnoxious blue MAGA accounts so I could proceed to block them all worked out much more efficiently than I even anticipated lol

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Bernie sanders US senator is neither god or satan but a man who believes in certain things some of which are wrong and some of which are right if at this stage of the game you think anything more than this either way you are a fool

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i realize that a lot of people seem to require a mechanism for making loving Biden seem cool but sadly I am unable to pretend Gaza doesn't exist

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the way to fix that was to nominate bernie sanders i don't even say that as an embittered bernie bro, just that it's pretty baffling how people on here have been spending two months trying to puzzle out a way to win the Left's tacit approval that doesn't involve giving them a single inch

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