“As someone who was, you know, on the other side, I can say the work that they [antifa] are doing is indispensable,” he said. “The anti-fascists have probably done more than any authorities to disrupt and combat the rise of fascism.”
“There is no ‘both sides’ when It comes to the anti-fascists,” S.G. said. “They are right.”
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I thought this glimpse into another country’s political debates was interesting. This session is chaired by Sanna Marin, who at 34 years old is set to become Finland’s youngest Prime Minister in history.
Do not worry if you don’t speak Finnish, there are subtitles. Do not worry whether you will be bored. These are the highlights. You can skip around to any timestamp and you will probably laugh.
For example:
At 1:00:
“I have already made up my mind. Don’t confuse me with facts or reason.”
5:39 an old lady is furious that she’s not allowed to racially profile people
At 5:55, Madame Marin, the new PM, says:
“Now this is really starting to seem like bullying. The same people keep asking for the floor, only to repeat the same things they just said.”
More about Sanna if interested.
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Sad
Normally that gif would not be appropriate, but that is actually how I feel. What a loss.
If you just made that up not only @BestOf but send it somewhere, that deserves to be published imo, you’ve like surpassed all of Ogden Nash with that
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well you are drunker than I if you think that was original
I am drunk and high but not yet drunker than you.
lol thanks. unless you’re making fun of me. hard to tell!
Never heard this guy. I like him!
I’ll drink to that
I’m sure it’s been done before, but I didn’t copy anyone. I was inspired by @fidgetUK’s haiku in keed’s thread.
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Not making fun, it’s the best haiku I’ve ever read, although generally I have low opinion of the form, but yours is meta in the best way possible.
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https://twitter.com/bendreyfuss/status/1203729478129725441?s=19
Have to watch with audio on to truly appreciate.
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I’m just getting into this but it seems like the tldr is literally everyone in charge knew that Afghanistan was a losing effort that was a waste of time, money, and human lives, and they knowingly lied to the public about it for ~20 years.
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This shit right here is why normal people’s reaction to liberals telling them that the government is going to fix something is to groan loudly.
Seriously anyone who has ever dealt with the federal government has experienced why so few people want them to directly run anything else. The stories about the VA do not inspire a great deal of confidence in Washington running a true single payer system.
I still think we need to give the federal government more power to get where we need to go… but part of that is acknowledging that there are some deeply broken parts of our system that need a full blown rework to be flatter and faster. There’s a lot of bloat now, and it’s not unreasonable for middle and upper middle class people who already pay quite a bit in taxes to expect government to become more efficient before it asks for more of their money.
We need to just leave Afghanistan and take our loss. We also need to cut back the military super hard and do some real soul searching on the true costs and benefits of our foreign policy spend. The Pentagon is long overdue to be sized correctly for the US’s actual defense needs, which are pretty minimal tbh. The rest of the world will probably be marginally worse off, but not as much as the military people are telling us they will be… and they won’t spend as much as we were spending on weapons.
“The government sucks, put us in charge and we’ll prove it.”
- Republicans
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