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  1. Sorry, posting and cooking/drinking. Kokoretsi— lamb spleen, liver, heart, sweetbread marinated and spiced, wrapped in caul and intestines and will be spit-roasted too.
  2. It’s about to go down for Lamb Easter.
  3. Anyone who was involved in violence should be arrested and charged. As I said upthread, the probability that contentious demonstration will devolve into violence and clashes increases to 1 the longer they go on. It is completely unreasonable and non-sustainable for a select group of people to claim the right to hold a permanent live-in protest in a place they have no right to occupy, and either police it themselves (they have no right to do that) or demand that the public authorities provide security and support for them as they claim public (and sometimes private) spaces for themselves to the exclusion of the rest of the public or the actual owners. Camping isn’t speech. Allowing it to get this far is a massive failure of responsibility and foresight. And this is all the point, the point isn’t to petition or exercise free speech, it’s to cause a disruption.
  4. This isn’t funny or cool, it’s sad and gross.
  5. Freedom on Fire and Winter on Fire are must watches along with 20 Days in Mariupol. The Killing of a Journalist is amazing.
  6. I find it remarkable that although the pro-Palestine movement has many eloquent and impassioned advocates to choose from with pristine backgrounds and unquestioned devotion to peace and tolerance, so many of these groups insist on inviting convicted terrorists and hijackers to be headliners. That’s not tongue in cheek, I’m really mystified because I don’t think most grassroots Palestine supporters are clamoring to hear from them. Clearly there is a strong impetus within the leadership of some groups that they need to normalize those people and that this goal is more valuable than the media blowback from putting a plane hijacker on the stage with you.
  7. “The Jews birthed Marxism” is straight uncut Nazi rhetoric.
  8. This thread is getting fucked up and sad, the way the protestors and counter-protestors are acting towards each other and their schools is gross and bad. As I mentioned upthread, there are almost certainly bad actors who just want anger. People are already getting hurt. A lot of this is the total dereliction of responsibility by institutions. You can’t decide that some rules are ok to break by some protestors and then try to adjudicate that other rules are serious and can’t be broken by other protestors. The atmosphere of impunity spirals. It’s a basic of crowd control and protests to expect counter-protestors, and that they will need intervention and escalation to keep them apart and maintain peace. That’s why protests are time and location bound. It is neither feasible nor appropriate to expend resources to maintain permanent deescalation around a group that wants to be in permanent protest in a place where they will be around people who don’t share their views; this is the inevitable result that could have been avoided by sober, measured, and viewpoint neutral intervention early on to keep the demonstrations within bounds.
  9. Landlines were great, better than smart phones. I had a girlfriend in high school who really liked long phone convos and I didn’t, and I could just take the phone off the book, play some Sega Genesis NCAA, and then blame my sister for hogging the line. Dating is important, you need to touch a few sets of boobs to discover that while they are great, they aren’t so great that you need to put up with someone who wants to talk on the phone all the damn time.
  10. No countries are going to allow Israel to solve their problem via ethnic cleansing and passing the bill to other countries, which is what that would be. We bombed Serbia for trying something similar.
  11. “Hi America. We’re so divided these days, and as you all focus on college kids and cops, please let’s not forget what’s important: I shot my dog in a gravel pit. And also a goat. I didn’t get the goat with the first shot.” Who is her media person?! Does she know she doesn’t have to go talk about this more?
  12. Y’all are debating a bill through the prism of a Matt Walsh tweet. What the hell is happening here?
  13. Wait, some people sing “Jingle Bells, Batman Smells, Robin Flew Away”? NO! “Robin Laid an Egg!” That’s WHY Batman smells. What is this antifa woke bullshit about flying away?!
  14. We talked about this up thread. I’ve noticed it too, but it’s not a gender thing. The male students are also not in great shape. And I absolutely remember going back to campuses in my late 20s and 30s and thinking “wow, all the people are so attractive.” This is something that has changed. Unfit, lots of weed, SSRIs, and a shit diet is the norm. Not good for the sex drive.
  15. And from pure politics, letting the House GOP smear themselves for the next six months when they should be campaigning is not a terrible place to be in.
  16. He’s terrible but yes. You can’t press for someone to be a statesman and show bipartisan ship then punish them for doing it. McCarthy got the axe for being a liar and dishonest with Ds. Go win the House and get the speakership. Till then, the lesson for Mike is that being an honest broker is rewarded. We might want another aid package with a future speaker.
  17. Lots of creeping goalposts here, it’s been fascinating to watch the salami getting sliced. ”What right do the PIGS have to arrest people who have broken into a building and are tearing shit up and won’t leave! What right do they have to ARREST people committing felonies!” People have lost the ability to use their noggin, breaking and entering and felony weapons possession doesn’t become OK just cause you yell shit about Palestine while you do it.
  18. Blumenthal launched his outlet following a 2015 trip to Moscow where Mike Flynn received 45,000 dollars to speak. So yes, you’ve stupidly realized you’re swimming in a sewer it’s just that you like the taste of the turds.
  19. The risk here of challenging yourself is that the space is full of people and actors with concealed intent, affiliation, and agenda. It is very difficult for even literate consumers to discriminate and pick apart people who disagree, people who legitimately hold awful viewpoints because they are dumb, people who hold awful viewpoints because they are awful, and people with awful viewpoints who are simply weapons. As an analogy, imagine you’re trying to decide what to do with a big windfall. You decide to talk to a financial advisor at a traditional firm, a more aggressive boutique guy, your idiot brother in law pumping crypto, and a criminal who wants to scam you and steal your money. There’s an argument to listen to the first three and challenge yourself but no one in their right mind thinks that you just hear out the criminal because you want to keep an open mind. The problem is that it’s hard to pick out the criminal and they are good at telling you what you want to hear.
  20. While this is true, it’s important to pull the thread all the way. He’s not a Syrian war crimes denier because he’s a shithead or an idiot. He’s a war crimes denier because he’s paid to advance Kremlin viewpoints by the Kremlin and the assumption should be that he is always doing that.
  21. As I said, I am completely unsurprised that you and Chainsaw lectured the group to use different sources than the MSM and then directed us to a site and actor that is Kremlin-backed and Kremlin-controlled because you agree with them on this. Just waiting for Anastasis to round out the trifecta. I will be interested to see the response from a few other posters who are calling for better info hygiene and who are ordinarily fairly level headed. For those uninitiated, Max Blumenthal is a paid contributor to Sputnik and RT, which are Kremlin run and controlled outlets that have been sanctioned across much of Europe and been forced to register as a foreign agent here in the United States. Blumenthal’s own “Grayzone” outlet was created a month after Max visited Moscow and immediately began posting in support of Assad and the Russian government in Syria. One of its well-known contributors was Gonzalo Lira, who was imprisoned for spreading propaganda in Ukraine, where he was promoting the passport bro lifestyle and supporting LNR/DNR with English propaganda. Blumenthal has testified on behalf of Russia at the UN. His outlet, among other things, claimed that the Russian bombing of a Mariupol maternity hospital was a psy-op carried out by the Azov Battalion. There are many questionable accounts being posted on these protests, thus far there has only been one that belongs to an open, paid agent of a hostile foreign power. That, to me, is far more interesting than who shouted what at a protest.
  22. Max Blumenthal is a known collaborator with Kremlin controlled media and his outlet is not just a bullshit clickbait farm, it’s a literal Kremlin info op. This is by far the worst source and actor that’s been posted on any of these threads. I am, of course, completely unsurprised that this is one of your go-tos.
  23. Citizen journalism via Twitter was a thing that largely got promoted during the Arab Spring and Iran protests and then spread to include citizens reporting on events from nations with only state-controlled media to report and organize on state actions. Elron’s citizen journalists focus on reporting from open societies and claim that their reporting is needed because a shadowy cabal of elites control media. They frequently promote malign state-sponsored narratives and news and cooperate with state-controlled foreign media. The one small carve-out is that the biggest information threat is the ongoing death of good local and regional reporting. Most people need to know more about their county officials than they do about college protests. But there are very few of these “citizen journalists” on the local government procurement beat.
  24. If you get a subscription to the NYT or Washington Post and The Economist you will likely have a good understanding of almost everything you need to know and will also get all the responsible context and responsible differing opinions. Add WSJ/FT for the business stuff. Only if you REALLY care about something, it might be worth it to follow a journalist from one of those outlets on a specific beat like defense or Congress and then watch who they interact with to build out your own feed. The vast majority of people only need NYT/WaPo and The Economist.
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