Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/
the one who loved horses, the one who was a great goalkeeper, the one who kept a diary every day, the one who held her sister's hand when they walked to school, the one who read Harry Potter in English, the one who collected old coins, the one who drew rainbows for her grandmother ...
Polymarket to allow bets on the name of the new terrorist organization spawned by the war in Iran.
Thanks. Multiple family members who served (my father went to West Point and my uncle was blown up in Vietnam), so I've got a general sense.
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So she should castrate Lewandowski is the take-away, right?
Trump, suffering from dementia, is confused about where his father was born. It was in the Bronx, not in Germany. Trump's grandfather was an immigrant who came here after getting kicked out of Germany for evading the draft.
That would be because she is a moron.
This really ought to be terrifying. We literally have people making decisions to drop bombs in the grips of apocalyptic fantasies.
Yes, the fact that he makes a distinction there between the "simplified script" and the "classical *characters*" gives me even less confidence that he actually reads Chinese, classical or vernacular. I'm pretty much 100% sure he can't read secondary literature in Chinese.
I think in some way we want the same things here, but the moral arguments you are making here just make no sense to me. Nothing about this guys tells me I should trust him to make good moral decisions because he has consistently made bad ones up to the present moment.
DEFEND??? You do know that WE INVADED IRAQ, right? What the fuck was he "defending," our ability to murder babies and torture people???
Do you really think working for Williams when it invests in large funds that include some companies that produce components used in weapons is the equivalent of working for Erik fucking Prince in Afganistan? I honestly cannot believe you think this.
My alternative is for the Maine democrats to find someone other than a near-octogenarian or a Nazi-adjacent poser to run. Would I vote for him over Susan Collins (or urge my parents to, because I no longer live in Maine)? Of course.
He said time and time again that US wars were unjust and then he went in fought in them again and again (and his excuse was that he read too much Hemmingway???).
...but he was working for fucking BLACKWATER in 2018! Yes, I expect him not to willing work for a force of massive evil in in his 30s when he should know better (and he did know). And he's still hanging with neo-Nazis NOW. Maybe he's a better person, but I see nothing that would make me trust him.
1. Are you really going to pretend that his whole schtick isn't that is an working class oyster farmer? 2. I didn't say anything about Mamdani but he never pretended to be working class himself. 3. Of course I don't expect him to be perfect *from birth* (which is obviously not what I was implying)..
Screenshot of a 3hr old post from the GW Hatchet: “BREAKING: GW sold its Virginia campus to Amazon Data Services, an Amazon subsidiary that manages the company's data centers, for $427 million on Friday. The deed, obtained by The Hatchet, authorizes ADS to develop the campus into a data or information technology center. STORY TK”
GW‘s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn
Am I right that Yale University Press is publishing a "translation" by someone who can't read the original text he's translating?
I don't think that word (translation) means what he thinks it means...
Can we sneak in Dunhuang as "Western civilization"?
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Among other reasons, this is why
YOU DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE.
And to be clear, I like and agree with many things he is currently saying and thus get the appeal, but I absolutely don't trust him. Almost everything I see in his past ACTIONS (and many current ones) tells me he that I should not trust him to actually DO the right thing.
If a fake-working-class rich boy with a Nazi tattoo who keeps hanging out with white supremacists and and anti-semites (actively praising them instead of, you know, arguing against them), and was a Blackwater mercenary is the best the Maine dems can do, we deserve to lose Susan Collins again.
ctext.org/instructions.... Will become even harder now to convince students that it is fully worthwhile learning Classical Chinese ... (2/2)
Alas, yet again.
I really hoped you were the other one this time. This is is deeply disappointing.
platner had a nazi tattoo, retweets nazi podcasters, and has appeared on the podcasts of antisemitic conspiracy theorists. he was also a mercenary and despite his blue collar shtick comes from an extremely wealthy family.
Years ago our admin did a red and black report. It took salaries & how much $ each instructor made in tuition $ for classes we taught-you were in the red or black. They released numbers once & shut it down bc humanities were producing huge $ for uni & engineers, business and scientists were losing $
very unfair to call this guy a Nazi merely because he had a Nazi tattoo, retweets Nazis, and praises Nazi shows. after all, he could just be really astonishingly fucking dumb. seems like a great candidate!
