Clint Popetz

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Clint Popetz

“In the name of unity, stop taking issue with Jan. 6” is “when you say it’s wrong that I hit you, you’re tearing this family apart” on a national scale.

Rooting for Mlada Bosna, particularly now that they signed Gavrilo.

Just remember to offer space to all the Balkans in your life as they're forced to watch the Turks and Austrians fight for control of Europe again

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Pwnallthethings

The damage this causes across generations (even if the regime is short lived!) is so hard to grasp if you haven’t lived with it. It touches every aspect of life. It makes trust impossible, and without some level of trust and a belief in the possibility of justice, *nothing in society works.*

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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.

I don’t recall the NYT calling for Trump to step down after being convicted of 34 counts of fraud and being called by a judge at his civil trial a rapist in the common person sense

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Clint Popetz

Please speak for your sad normie selves, NYT. The man was smokin’ to the end. Like a wild, beautiful, lanky wolf, with eyes that could pierce metal. I’m sorry if you don’t speak charisma

well that just seems kinda mean

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CHOAM Nomsky 💭

or "never erect"

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Clint Popetz

Son, we live in a world that has flags, and those flags have to be flown by wives who are fond of them. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt Weinberg?

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Dave Weigel

Providing an unsubscribe link is required by law (CAN-SPAM Act), and not providing it means your spam is likely to get filtered out of the inbox automatically, because it lowers your sender reputation score.

You are thinking they "automatically subscribed you" when there is an unsubscribe link, but email marketing is always "maintaining a list of people and sending shit to them on a regular basis" whether there is an unsubscribe link or not. The law just says "you have to provide a way to opt out."

(I hate this shit too, but there is a reason those links exist.)

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CHOAM Nomsky 💭

I have developed a habitual crouch whenever I sit in a place where people want to see things on the stage/screen in front of me. I have chronic back pain and I do it anyway.

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Clint Popetz

i would like a leftism that is not fundamentally rooted in misery

I remember reading Solnit’s piece when it was published and shouting “yes!” And now I’m rereading it and realizing how much, much worse things are now, and how sadly relevant her piece still is.

this tendency has only gotten worse and worse since Solnit wrote this - tomdispatch.com/rebecca-soln...

The Rain on Our Paradetomdispatch.com Dear Allies, Forgive me if I briefly take my eyes off the prize to brush away some flies, but the buzzing has gone on for some time. I have a grand goal, and

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Dave Weigel

Baron Harkonnen is really uncomfortable in that blue button down.

This is almost always true! This week I cracked and roasted my own walnuts. Never tasted anything like them. Unbelievable.

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Tom Nichols

Don’t forget, Tom: this is the business you’ve chosen.

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Clint Popetz

I sent this message to the UMass administration yesterday: "I was looking forward to speaking next week at UMass Amherst. I visited two years ago and everyone was awesome. My nephew graduated from there and got a great education. But calling the cops on peaceful protesters is a shameful act...” 1/2

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Dave Weigel

I don´t say this lightly, but...what the every loving fuck. Just...no. No no no no no.

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Clint Popetz

"This week, the unthinkable occurred on our [REVERENT ADJECTIVE] campus. An [INFLAMMATORY COLLECTIVE NOUN] overtook the historic [CENTRAL CAMPUS LOCATION NAMED AFTER PROBLEMATIC DONOR]." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/uni...

University President’s Response to Student Dissent Mad Libswww.mcsweeneys.net To our treasured [COLLEGE / UNIVERSITY NAME] community, This week, the unthinkable occurred on our [REVERENT ADJECTIVE] campus. An [INFLAMMATORY CO...

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Pwnallthethings

When I was finally given the right to get my visa I couldn’t get it because I needed to leave the country and come back and the borders were closed due to covid. I then had to apply to extend my tourist visa on the basis of “dude, these are your insane rules and it’s a pandemic, wtf?” Fun times.

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Pwnallthethings

As someone who recently immigrated from the US to Canada, I can tell you that even in peace time, with a decent cushion of money and a job and an attorney it was long, difficult, tedious, confusing, frustrating process. People who haven’t tried to immigrate have no idea. I didn’t before doing it.

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Dara Lind

I meet another Clint once every 4 years or so and am relieved it is this infrequent.

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Popehat

Thank fucking god for editors, even of books I will never read, because someone would still post the excerpt here.

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HALDEMAN: “have you reviewed the excerpts my office sent over?” NIXON: “you know someone suggested I’d do that with Checkers” HALDEMAN: “out of order, sir” NIXON: “who the Christ shoots a puppy, even the Irish on their whisky” [unintelligible] HALDEMAN: “I’ll take her off the VP list”

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Tom Nichols

I'm sorry to hear that, Tom. It's tough losing furry friends. Glad you had the time with her that you did, and she with you.

I dunno. I needed that art. It’s great!

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Kevin M. Kruse

“No it’s not an excuse, it’s just a story about my daddy” is one of my all time favorite movie moments.