MaxillaryMillion

Maximal Maximilian

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@ShadowBannedUSA @bhannman @pjmah @paulg If you can't do basic arithmetic without a calculator, you should probably not be opining on pedagogical practice.

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@kevinbcarney @matthewstoller uh yeah man, that's the point?

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@PantsuInspector @FaytuksNetwork JCPOA without a sanctions trigger isn't JCPOA. It isn't anything. It's just "trust me bro."

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@GerardJeff76 @FaytuksNetwork #5 and #8 were the status quo before the war. The only thing the war changed is that now we're surrendering our only effective containment weapon and giving them a shitton of money for regime entrenchment and rearmament.

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@MaggieBChivers @GoTime22 @FaytuksNetwork It's not the same deal, there's no NATO inspectors or sanction triggers or funds restrictions this time. Literally the U.S. gets nothing except an end to the war, in return for which Iran gets every single strategic objective it's had wrt to the US for 25 years.

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@duzy2 @FaytuksNetwork I think the entire foreign policy establishment and the US military knew?

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@AugustinaJJD @FaytuksNetwork Iran's nuclear program is the same today as it was 10 years ago except without NATO inspections, threat of sanctions, funding restrictions, and also now they have $300b extra (which will ofc be paid by you). But other than that, 👍

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@garyleff @mattyglesias Also, the thing about progressives viewing October 7th as "a fight for liberation" is almost offensive. I travel in lefty circles, and in my life, I have heard a total of one person say such a thing, and she was politely asked to leave the DSA meeting lol

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@garyleff @mattyglesias This reads like some outsider right-wing fantasy of what's going on in the D coalition? A huge supermajority of Ds oppose the Israeli genocide (as do a majority of Americans) and almost none if them think it has anything to do with capitalism or class struggle.

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@LeeCZ73 @mattyglesias i was wondering how terminal magas were going to rationalize this. is everyone going with "the war we lost was actually great," or is there like a/b testing going on?

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@garyleff @RakeshSFNYC @mattyglesias "Arafat would not make peace. He's probably have been killed if he did." That's exactly it, the Palestinian hardliners would not have accepted peace, unlike the Israelis.

Say, remind me, what happened to the Israeli PM who tried to make peace in Oslo, I forget.

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@Lurkingposter @matthewstoller I really don't get the thing about "Anglo Saxon tradition." The basic principles behind the US are found in Enlightenment-era political philosophy, which is as much Italian and French in origin as it is English -- and neither the French nor the Italians were Anglo-Saxon.

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@kevinbcarney @matthewstoller alfred the great would like a word

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@Nomansland3147 @matthewstoller pretty sure the eeeearliest ancient who talks about something kinda sorta approaching similar to the enlightenment conception of rights is cicero, who was like 300 years later

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@Nomansland3147 @matthewstoller omg lol, aristotle didn't write about "individual rights" in the modern sense; he thought that the basic unit of meaning was not the individual but the polis and that nature endowed people with different levels of dignity and that some were "natural slaves."

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@DriverHawk @maddypongy @mmitchafterdark About 1000-2000 Britons die every year from heat-related causes. About 45000-65000 Americans die every year from gun violence.

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@MuseZack The White Citizens Councils spread the lie from the beginning that Rosa Parks was engaged in some sort of premeditated publicity stunt bc "tired little old lady" is obviously a more sympathetic figure than "activist pulling stunt" -- but it wasn't true. It wasn't planned.

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@besthof_robert @mehdirhasan @bariweiss @MajorCBS Did any of this make sense in your head? If you're a bot, you need more work, and if you're a human, you need to get help, man.

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@besthof_robert @mehdirhasan @bariweiss @MajorCBS At this point, you obviously couldn't blame Gazans who want to erase Israel in the same way you couldn't blame slaves who want to erase their masters, but there was plenty of polling on this before the genocide, and Gazans and Israelis' views of each other were 90% symmetrical.

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@besthof_robert @mehdirhasan @bariweiss @MajorCBS lol wut? i think medhi would be the first to agree that hamas is as bad as israel