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@YaxueCao "Self-recommending"

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@TMTLongShort Iran has been at war with us for 47 years.

I'd be more than happy to see fireworks on July 4.

Skeptics should learn some history, and about different peoples and cultures. Iran will not become Iraq, and certainly nothing like Afghanistan.

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@lobstergodess @AndrewHammel1 Childish to be in favor of freedom?!?

It is absolutely positively unambiguously a good thing for people to be able to build, buy, sell or rent houses that you (or anyone) thinks are ugly.

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@lobstergodess @AndrewHammel1 > Not really a valid argument that some like it that way.

What a remarkable statement.

You think everyone should live in houses that meet YOUR standard.

That's totalitarian.

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Many leftists in the US agree with you.

Speaking for myself:
- there's no such thing as an oversized home. It's great to have the freedom for people to buy whatever size they think is right for them.
- traditional American homes look awesome
- cars are great and grocery shopping (etc) with a car is so much better than on foot

(Suburbs are walkable for a nice stroll. But thanks to cars, people aren't forced to walk when they prefer to drive.)

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Based.

[Clint Brown @DissidentClint]

Sir, I have some expertise in Senate rules and precedent. In fact, at one time you were one of a dozen senators who paid me for that.

The talking filibuster will work.

Senators who refuse to do this to pass the SAVE America Act are the ones demoralizing their own base.

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@SkylarSkye3 And we assume others should be proud of their country, state/province, city, community.

America's patriotism is misunderstood by the left in America and misrepresented by media in the US and beyond, so hard for some to truly understand.

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Very useful view.

Anyone who genuinely wants to make the world a better place should understand the actual cost of different policies.

(An aside: 'hypothetical' is correct here. It's useful to put certain items aside to have a proper focus on other issues.)

[Jonatan Pallesen @jonatanpallesen]

Let's hypothetically accept the premise that it's really true that millions of lives were lost due to the USAID spending cuts.

The spending cuts to Africa aid is ~$6 billion.

Non-western immigration costs the Netherlands more than $30 billion a year.

If the Netherlands had remigration (with financial re-settling support) of most of these costly immigrants, they would have $30 billion extra in the budget each year. $6 billion could then be used on aid. Which according to the claim would save millions of lives.

That is an absolute no-brainer, I assume we all agree?

It cannot be more important that some migrants live in the Netherlands than the loss of millions of lives every year.

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@AF_Insight Ongoing reminder: the perfect is the enemy of the good.

Nobody in politics gets what they want. It's always a compromise.

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Note:

[Cleta Mitchell @CletaMitchell]

Here’s how to get the SAVE America Act passed by the Senate and in to the President’s desk:

1. House passes Reconciliation 3.0 with the SAVE America Act in the bill along with funding for states to pay for enhanced REAL ID that says “CITIZEN” on the drivers license. Send the bill to Senate

2. When Senate parliamentarian rules that under the Byrd Rule, that provision is policy rather than funding, so it has to have 60 votes.

3. Sen Thune or any Senator can appeal the ruling of the chair. Takes a simple majority. 51 votes. Put VP Vance in the chair. The SAA stays in reconciliation.

4. Reconciliation passes with SAVE America Act.

5. @realDonaldTrump signs the bill to celebrate the 250th birthday of American independence.

Nuke the Byrd Rule. Named after Robert Byrd, former Dem Senate Majority Leader. Member of the Ku Klux Klan. Nuke the KKK Rule

God Bless America🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@SpeakerJohnson @BasedMikeLee @chiproytx @seanmdav @MZHemingway @EIwatchdogs @seanspicer @EricLDaugh @DC_Draino @StephenM @gc22gc @Bannons_WarRoom

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@RollingHedge @DamianPudner Another relevant point: Americans want others to be wealthy and happy too! Vance and Rubio have both made this point in different ways.

An obvious case in point: yes, A/C is great and we think everybody should have it. Why suffer?

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@redheadranting It really is time for the non-crazy parts of the left to hold your nose and temporarily join with MAGA / America First. We have to take our country back. We can fight about the welfare state later.

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@antoniogm > Europe has suburbs too and they suck for the same reasons American ones do

"My (narrow) tastes and preferences are vastly superior so I'm going to insult everyone who has different ones."

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@alicianieves__ Likely a good strategy.

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@KnightLegg > The number one thing Canada can do is make up for lost time and ship trillions of its vast natural gas supply

Yes, extract it! Though more likely target is Europe. Energy -> prosperity.

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@adamkjohnston Limitations are good; moratorium is dumb. Of course we benefit from limited highly-selective migration.

In general: your list is in the wrong order.

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@cecilia_gj @aporia9n 1. Americans typically recognize the great things about the heritage that we share with Europe
2. Europeans are typically clueless (or stupidly dismissive) about America's historical, artistic & cultural heritage since 1620. That was more than a few years ago by now.

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I've mentioned this before and will again. It's a vital part of how the world can move forward. Of course we should teach accurate history. And of course we should move forward rather than clinging to old bitterness and hate.

[めねぎ | 🇯🇵 @sakebu_cheese_]

アメリカのみんなこんばんは🌎🇺🇸🇯🇵

とんでもないことに気がつきました...😅😅😅
日本とアメリカは80年ほど前まで大きな戦争をしていた国同士だよね。。。

もちろん歴史を忘れてはいけませんが、今では多くの日本人がアメリカに親しみを持ち、みんなのように多くのアメリカ人も日本に好意的でいてくれている印象です。

世界を見ると、インドとパキスタンのように過去の戦争や紛争が何十年経っても国同士や国民同士の強い対立につながっている例も少なくないですね。

当たり前のように感じていましたが、日本とアメリカがここまで友好的な関係を築いているのは、実はかなり特別なことなのではないかと思いました。

日本人のことが今も憎いアメリカ人もいると思うけど、それでも素晴らしいね。

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Epic.

It's hilarious, and a genuinely insightful look at 2 cultures. Nice example of how Americans & Japanese can be so different, yet with huge mutual respect, and some real overlap that helps tie things together.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I went to In-N-Out and ordered a cheeseburger. The cashier, a calm young woman named Destiny, asked me a question I did not expect.

"You want that Animal Style?"

I paused.

I did not know what this meant. But a samurai does not admit he does not know. So I answered with weight.

"...Animal Style."

"Cool. So that's mustard-grilled, extra spread, grilled onions, pickles. Yeah?"

I understood now. This was a sacred permission. For one meal, I was being told to put down my manners at the door. To eat the way a beast eats, without shame. I had waited my whole life for someone to give me this order.

"Yes," I said. "I will become the animal."

Destiny did not blink. "...Okay. You want your fries Animal Style too?"

I stopped. Even the potatoes?

"The potatoes also become animals?"

"I mean, they get cheese and sauce and grilled onions, so..."

"Then yes. Let the potatoes abandon their restraint as well."

"...Got it." She was the calmest woman I have ever met. "3x3, 4x4, or just the one?"

I did not know these numbers, but I knew a challenge when I heard one. "How many must I face?"

"It's, like, how many patties you want."

"How many is the most honorable?"

"...Four is a lot."

"Then four. A warrior does not ask for fewer."

She wrote it down without argument. A 4x4, Animal Style, with animal fries. She warned me once, kindly. "That's gonna be huge." I told her I was counting on it.

It arrived. It was a tower. Cheese and sauce ran down my hands the moment I lifted it. There was no clean way to eat it. There was no dignified way. That was the entire point.

I ate it like a beast. Both hands, no honor, grilled onion on my chin, and I have to be honest with you, it was the best thing I have ever put in my mouth.

For thirty years I have kept my manners at every table in the world.

They handed me a burger and told me to be an animal, and I have never felt so free.

So tell me, America.

The whole country knows the secret menu. What else are you hiding in plain sight?

And "Animal Style." Was I eating the animal, or finally becoming one?

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@lsanger I'm thankfully nowhere near the drama nor any of the people, but this seems worth noting:

> Monday mid-morning: Jimbo Wales engages repeatedly on his user talk page to support me.