Dani Quixote a la Planchà

I study deplorable domestic extremism and dis/mis/malinformation. Dad. #HoldtheLine

[Dani Quixote a la Planchà @Daskol2]

For posterity.

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@RjNol Steven Spielberg is the answer

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@For_Film_Fans I was too young to see them live in this era or the first run of the movie, but lucky enough to live near a movie house that plays it once in a while so got to take my kids to a late night showing.

[Dani Quixote a la Planchà @Daskol2]

@For_Film_Fans Superlative: best performance of the best song from a great band in the best concert film ever made.

[Dani Quixote a la Planchà @Daskol2]

Gramsci in his discourse on cultural hegemony, who must be smiling from the grave, described the process nicely a century ago.

[Kat Rosenfield @katrosenfield]

Has anyone yet written the complete history of how Pride went from a vibrant counterculture to a civil rights movement to a sort of unofficial corporate-sponsored state religion whose observance is subsidized by taxpayer dollars and sometimes compelled by law

[Dani Quixote a la Planchà @Daskol2]

@katrosenfield Gramsci in his discourse on cultural hegemony, who must be smiling from the grave, described the process nicely a century ago.

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@HodlMagoo A used car salesman would never lie so blatantly, because he'd never see a repeat customer. This is transient swindler snake-oil salesman BS.

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@Aartworlld Looks like BAP

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@fakechuck @DerekPederson3 @RogueScholarPr She's pretty deep for a broad, and pointing out how large in life Dworkin was is not a mere fat joke.

[Dani Quixote a la Planchà @Daskol2]

That is how you celebrate Pride Month.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On June 13, 1777, a 19-year-old French teenager landed on a beach in South Carolina, uninvited, to fight in someone else's war. He would become one of the most important men in American history.

The Marquis de Lafayette was one of the richest young aristocrats in France. He had a beautiful wife, a fortune, and zero reason to risk any of it. But he believed in the American cause so fiercely that when the French king forbade him from going, Lafayette bought his own ship and sailed anyway. He literally went AWOL from a life of luxury to bleed for a country that didn't exist yet.

Congress was annoyed at first. Another foreign officer looking for a paycheck? Then Lafayette offered to serve for free and pay his own way. That got their attention.

He met Washington and the two formed one of the great father-son bonds in American history. Washington had no biological children. Lafayette named his only son George Washington Lafayette.

He took a bullet in the leg at Brandywine and kept rallying the retreat. He was instrumental at Yorktown, the battle that won the war. He went home a hero on two continents.

A foreign teenager believed in America before America did. 249 years ago today.

[Dani Quixote a la Planchà @Daskol2]

@ShamashAran Who would have thought electing the nation's first "black president," a professional race hustler with no personal connection to the black American experience, but a very direct connection to its malign intelligence community and their narrative engineering, might do this?

[Dani Quixote a la Planchà @Daskol2]

@mekismet @jeffreytucker @tomselliott To be fair, the $2.99 value meals in the '90s were a deliberate nostalgia throwback to when they were first introduced in the '80s (I was in HS in the '90s and remember the prices and ads very well!)

[Dani Quixote a la Planchà @Daskol2]

@mekismet @jeffreytucker @tomselliott Amazingly, $1-1.50 or so and $2.50-2.99 for the combo was the cost in '80s. The Big Mac Index: introduced by The Economist in 1986 as a surprisingly reliable measure of purchasing power parity since McDs was ubiquitous by then, beloved by econ profs and undergrads since.

[Dani Quixote a la Planchà @Daskol2]

@theaceofspaeder Great stuff, and elevator pitchable: more impact PAs, fewer PAs with 2 outs/empty bases, yada. Yankees should bat Ben Rice leadoff. They're already batting Judge 2 and even 1 in the past. Despite progressive lineup construction they're underperforming their RF/RA ratio.

[Dani Quixote a la Planchà @Daskol2]

@matthewstoller Posen: rare example of an international economist who makes Paul Krugman look relatively in touch with economics of main street. What the hell is wrong with macroeconomists?

[Dani Quixote a la Planchà @Daskol2]

@nolensflare @vashikoo Yes! I was distracted by the visuals the first time I saw it. Felt like high production value TV commercials. Next time I saw it, the harmony between the visuals and technique and the emotional tenor of the characters and scenes was impressive, not distracting.

[Dani Quixote a la Planchà @Daskol2]

@AlexBerenson why would you favor vaccination (especially since most if not all measles cases are among the vaccinated)?

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@ColonelTowner Ruthless. Do you buy the false flag backstory, that LBJ sanctioned the attack to represent it as Egyption attack to justify the US bombing Cairo? That is more plausible than the notion that Israel hit the ship to hide intelligence it had gathered on Israel's wartime conduct.

[Dani Quixote a la Planchà @Daskol2]

@jeffreytucker Optimistic case.

[Dani Quixote a la Planchà @Daskol2]

We safety test new vaccines using older vaccines as the placebo, and we fraud-check elections checking how it aligns with the last one. What could possibly go wrong?

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

In 2024, Kamala Harris got 70% of the vote in L.A., and Trump got 26%. In this year's mayoral election, the two top Democratic candidates got 63% and the Republican candidate got 26%. That's as ordinary and unsurprising a result as you could imagine.

There's nothing about this election that suggests fraud. The fact that candidates' vote shares rose and fell as more votes were counted is not only not improbable, it's expected. People suggesting otherwise are innumerate.

[Dani Quixote a la Planchà @Daskol2]

Looks like they really are going to ban it.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Something happened with Kratom. It used to help people get off of opioids. Now there are endless addiction stories. Maybe the strains changed. I don’t know, but it’s not the Kratom of old. This stuff is poison now.