Tequila0341

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as it happens I’m in Colombes, right next to Nanterre. everything is lovely.

social media always tells you the world is on fire, and it always is on fire. but a smaller part of the world is burning than social media pretends, to scare you into embracing bullshit.

#FranceRiots

A modest proposal; it should be mandatory every stupid piece of AI-generated text on the web is in Comic Sans for ease of identification
Three sources tell The Financial Times that Surovikin is indeed detained, though it's unknown if he's been charged with a crime or is merely in custody for interrogation. This basically confirms the online chatter over the past 12 hours or so. https://t.co/gmz661jSrX

If this passes, every future Republican candidate is going to claim to be a former Navy SEAL.

“House GOP moves to ban public access to service members' military records”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/house-gop-moves-ban-public-access-service-members-military-records-rcna90031

#gop #uspol

House GOP moves to ban public access to service members' military records

House Republicans are attempting to end the release of the service records of current and former military members after the Pentagon erroneously released the personal information of several GOP politicians.

NBC News
@interfluidity “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” (Frank Wilhoit)
Do liberals understand that by enforcing the rule of law in the face of overt, confessed-to federal crimes, they are destroying norms we don’t care about and unleashing a retaliatory abuse of the system that we were planning to do if we felt like it anyway?

Now this guy had a LIFE: Union Army private Mohammad Kahn, AKA John Ammahaeie. Born in Iran, grew up in Afghanistan, migrated to the US in 1861 and joined the Union Army. Fought at Gettysburg and the Wilderness, wounded at Malvern Hill and Spotsylvania.

https://narations.blogs.archives.gov/2017/06/23/private-mohammed-kahn-civil-war-soldier/

Private Mohammed Kahn: Civil War Soldier

Today’s post comes from Kate Mersiovsky, National Archives Technician Since I’ve become an archives technician in the Innovation Hub Scanning Room at the National Archives, I’ve seen my fair …

NARAtions
https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2018/5/10/17338290/intellectual-dark-web-rogan-peterson-harris-times-weiss My old piece on what was really up with Bari Weiss's Dark Web shtick holds up pretty well, I think.
The “Intellectual Dark Web,” explained: what Jordan Peterson has in common with the alt-right

A controversial New York Times piece describes certain popular white intellectuals as marginalized “renegades.” There’s a grain of truth amid the silliness.

Vox

@msquebanh "Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly, and focused on happier things than 'politics'. They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren't nice people? Resisters." — Naomi Shulman

Niceness is overrated; kindness is what we need.

Me crossing border to neighbor with tanks: hahaha! yes! Fuck yes!

Neighbor crossing border with tanks to me: ny blyat, this fucking sucks, what the fuck