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🙁

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i know, guys! what if we tariffed Vatican City?

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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/

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for the rest of world, indefinite mutual blockade creates time and incentive for adjustment from fossil fuels. 2/

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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/

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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

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ecclesiastical law and economics.

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dad jokes, no taboos. rad dad jokes. really groovy stuff.

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explains why there are so many urbanists on this website!

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who was the most tough-on-crime pope?

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c'mon people. it's rael.

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i mean, okay, i might’ve ran instead.

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if it were in that neighborhood, my country would be called “oh, man” too.

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they decided it was better to be feared than to be loved, and they have gotten what they chose.

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“what do they have against that golden calf anyway? gold is kind of my thing, you know.”

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was Jesus Christ WEAK on Crime?

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#evergreen

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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?

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as a notorious self-saboteur, i covet the JD Vance endorsement.

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what is this… feeling? such a peculiar thing to have something to celebrate.

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(Donald Trump isn't unique or rare among the kind of people who become credible Presidential aspirants in the US to know he is just bigger and more deserving than other people, who are sure they should be and in practice can be exempt from the persnickety strictures of lesser people.)

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Benjamin Netanyahu’s great achievement is to make that “Who can retell?” song sardonic.

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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/ 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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