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Thu 20 Aug 2020 00:09

@DavW_ @djhanson_87 @DavidCayJ in other words, as I suspected, you refuse to offer ANY criteria by which you’d accept Trump is a racist because there aren’t any. You’re wasting everybody’s time.

Thu 20 Aug 2020 00:08

@dominichills5 @djhanson_87 @DavidCayJ I think starting wars is different than imperialism. Minor powers start wars too. He’s trying to dismantle the institutional system that’s existed since the ’40s which guarantees the US a unique hegemonic role

Wed 19 Aug 2020 23:46

@dominichills5 @djhanson_87 @DavidCayJ he tried all sorts of things, ranging from pulling US troops out of Korea & Afghanistan (his aides blocked him), undermining NATO, encouraging a move away from the dollar as US reserve currency, destaffing the State Dept… but it didn’t work, yeah.

Wed 19 Aug 2020 22:25

@gmokery not what I was talking about really, unless you define statement as in any way controversial as a “fault line” (as I suspect you would have done unless I preempted…)

Wed 19 Aug 2020 21:41

@DavW_ @djhanson_87 @DavidCayJ Check out how he got his start in politics with the Central Park Jogger case

Wed 19 Aug 2020 15:25

@djhanson_87 @DavidCayJ He is a pure opportunist but sincere in two ways: 1.he is genuinely and sincerely racist; 2. He is genuinely and sincerely anti-imperialist at least in the US empires current form

Wed 19 Aug 2020 14:47

@ianfjanssen Neither. Sometimes people with radically different political positions share certain similar aims for different reasons. Why is this so difficult for people to understand?

Wed 19 Aug 2020 14:40

@ReidTymcio I assumed the Iran sanctions on second parties were a way of forcing people off the dollar as trade currency

Wed 19 Aug 2020 11:00

@inside_lemon @mnovember2 I’ve got English and German ones on it, also dentists in both countries

Wed 19 Aug 2020 09:11

@inside_lemon @mnovember2 well I’m not in contact with my cousins, don’t have any nieces or nephews, basically I only have Nika’s family otherwise I’m largely alone in the world, kin-wise.

Wed 19 Aug 2020 07:44

@gmokery a “fault line” is a place where there might be an earthquake, or potential tension…

Wed 19 Aug 2020 00:01

@mnovember2 well my tooth is cured but the weird bitter/soapy taste in my mouth has not gone away. So it wasn’t a tooth/gum thing. Medical science is baffled.

Wed 19 Aug 2020 00:00

@girlziplocked well yes, but usually when this is the only person you know with knowledge about a specific topic, like “I want to pick your brain about late Byzantine angelography.” If it’s not on that level of specificity, then probably yes you have reason to be suspicious

Tue 18 Aug 2020 21:06

@PafkoBosh @mnovember2 I think the destruction of an entire country (Yemen) including terror-bombing of schools and hospitals with the open collusion of all Western powers is a bit more of a scandal – for starters

Mon 17 Aug 2020 22:01

@richmondie yeah there’s a few papers still doing it now. Oddly in London it’s mainly the Telegraph. But it’s withering at the vine.

Mon 17 Aug 2020 13:15

@MElmaazi @alexburns @NewYorker it’s also true that since the question is no longer “did he engage in any prepub norms & practices?” but “did he engage in the exact same ones as the mainstream?” this would sort of prove my point. Did Woodward & Bernstein coordinate in this way with the gov’t?

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Mon 17 Aug 2020 09:46

@Normanjam67 I was thinking more of my mother. Teachers. I remember when Lula became President of Brazil they ask if there was anything he regretted & he said it was sad his mother was dead, she was so proud when he got a job as a metalworker because it was such a good job

Mon 17 Aug 2020 09:30

@SkyStapley @iainmunro10 I can imagine lots of alternative approaches to democracy but they imply none of them. There definitely ARE issues discussed: what to do about androids, genetic enhancement, etc etc. there just no sign key political issues are resolved through any democratic process