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@policytensor My best guess is some combination of under the table agreements with Gulf countries, letting the Houthis force Saudis out of the conflict, and time being needed to develop the missile technology to strike Diego Garcia, perhaps a nuclear weapon as well.

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@SeamusNua I’m curious how the writer of this theory squares their claims with the first-person perspective found in older Ancient Egyptian literature such as the Story of Sinuhe.

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@BiankaB12 We see this with “Lost Boys” from polygamous Mormon communities.

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@GoodnightMyLxve If an employer breaks their contract & shorts the employee on hours, the minimum wage is the basis for claiming back pay. If you work 40, they pay you only 30, and your pay still averages to >7.25/h, it’s federally legal. I never see this aspect of MW talked about ever.

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@stendhalist They are similar to far-right neopagans in Europe. Hatred of Islam and the obsession with Cyrus and Zoroaster is an extension of xenophobia.

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@LinkofSunshine Sometimes pain is the best teacher.

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@ThatchEffendi I remember this was the video that saved me from engaging further with anything Kraut does. https://t.co/NgLepEaDif

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@HormuzLetter You can tell this won’t work because if they had any real confidence in it, it would’ve been done from the get-go.

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@RamiThePaladin @VitalTelos Is there free will in heaven? If so, does evil exist in heaven?

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@TyKeynes The libertarian would say that it is a government supported monopoly without specifying how that is the case or what the mechanism for stopping the company from lobbying the government to create it would be.

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@souljagoyteller What the hell kind of logic is this. This just hands the Dems an even shittier situation to fix later. Care about the wellbeing of the people of the state, not cynical power play politics. Also, a shittier economy can make people more right wing. Look at the 70’s.

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@gonglei89 These types will simultaneously praise KMT, praise anti-KMT DPP, and praise economic policies antithetical to those the KMT actually implemented. It is shameless.

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@mujaya_ To add to your point; the rejection of might makes right, being rewarded in the afterlife for living a just life, the soul's immortality, & not letting base desires cloud rational thinking can all be found in Plato's Republic.

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@hrguerra RotS is a classic example of the book being better than the movie.

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@tweetmaster153 @XiWellWisher The Bengal Famine of 1770 due to East India Company policies.

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@TheNextMazer The prequels tried do something different and expanded the setting in an interesting direction. The sequels recycled OT/EU content and kept the setting stuck at Imperial vs Rebel. This distinction is why I think the sequels will not be reevaluated positively.

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@WardoftheStates What I remember was TPM and AOTC being badly received but RotS being on the more favorable side, though not without strong detractors.

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@haugejostein The best analogue to Mao in Western discourse is to US foreign policy. The US President may bomb and sanction as needed for the pursuit of spreading liberal ideology. The death toll from this is unfortunate but necessary for the greater good. The President then gets a library.

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@neerajadeshp The problem with pop evo psych explanations is simple: circular reasoning. Why do people demonstrate this behavior? Because evolution selected for it. How do we know evolution selected for it? Because people demonstrate this behavior.

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@WestsideLAGuy @Gabby_Hoffman Turning into an autistic Vulcan analyzing people's behaviors like they're animals in a nature doc won't change the fact that, by the standards of your own ideology, your own low EQ behavior makes you an evolutionary dead end.