Hampshire was the school that let New College of Florida students transfer in to escape the DeSantis/Rufo fascist takeover of the school. No good deed goes unpunished. #NewCollege
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you just squeeze the blocks into a pitcher of water and add sugar.
the new athena.
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a thing economistic people need to think about more is most people are closer to suicide than to starvation. what gets conventionally measured as poverty is not the binding constraint on most people’s welfare. can we quantify what is? i don’t know. but it’s not what we’re quantifying.
i know, guys! what if we tariffed Vatican City?
maybe it's a stretch, i am desperately seeking silver linings, but maybe there's something hopeful in the Iran War metamorphosing from an acute to a chronic crisis, fewer bombs and missiles, slow pain on all sides from mutual blockades. 1/
for the rest of world, indefinite mutual blockade creates time and incentive for adjustment from fossil fuels. 2/
inside iran, there might be more space for politics when bombs don't make anything other than rallying around the current government feel like treason. 3/
i don't have any hopeful motivated reasoning i can attach re israel / palestine / lebanon. hope there feels like touching the stove, we've all done it and done it and done it and been burned. (from the luxury of distance, it feels obscene to characterize oneself as having been burned. sorry.) /fin
who was the most tough-on-crime pope?
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if it were in that neighborhood, my country would be called “oh, man” too.
they decided it was better to be feared than to be loved, and they have gotten what they chose.
“what do they have against that golden calf anyway? gold is kind of my thing, you know.”
was Jesus Christ WEAK on Crime?
so the net effect will be that ships authorized by Iran, but that are not actually traveling to or from Iran, will be able to traverse?
as a notorious self-saboteur, i covet the JD Vance endorsement.
what is this… feeling? such a peculiar thing to have something to celebrate.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s great achievement is to make that “Who can retell?” song sardonic.
Hillary Clinton and Sergei Lavrov laughing raucously as they press a red “reset” button (of US-Russia relations during the Obama administration) via CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/02/world/sergey-kislyak-russian-ambassador-us-profile/
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sentiment and ressentiment.
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actually i am very feckful.
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the best time to even further alienate your allies is when you are in the middle of a war.