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seeing trump 2024 plasy out is making me realize that the trump 2016/brexit comparsions were way overblown. trump 2016 was just racist guy winning us election, fork found in kitchen, this is the usa's brexit -- setting decades of carefuly cultivated imperial soft power on fire for no reason because the ideological tail has been allowed to wag the dog

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watching professional sports is kinda like the human version of an animal documentary. I know those do technically exist, there’s history and anthropology docs, but sports is much closer to the feel of an animal documentary. The creation of narrative, the excitement, the action. You get me

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it's simple, you've got the neoliberals and the not-liberals and the republicans (not that kind) and the anti-republicans and the lives-in-the-republic anti-32-county people, and the west brits and the semi-ironic fenians, the protestants for gaelic, the catholics for anglicisation, the protestants against gaelic (presbyterian; loyalists) and the catholics against ulster scots (nobody in reality gives a fuck), irish gaeltacht people who resent that english is even spoken on the whole island, english-speakers who think that irish died out in the 90s, gaeilgeoirs of the galltacht, the southerners who are learning scots gaelic for some reason (good on them), the ulster scots who happen to be catholic, the people with fadas in their name who "happen to be anglo-catholic, actually, thank you very much", the english church of ireland members who are in the anglican gaelic league, the gaels who are in the anglosphere, people with irish names who think we should be in the fucking commonwealth, people who can tell you more than 2 facts about jeremiah o'donovan rossa. greater dublin area irredentists. people who forget the border even exists. cork separatists. english people who moved over in the 70s and loveeee ireland, british expats who clearly hate it here (sorely missing a tory party substitute), people who emigrated to the uk and came back more irish to an improbable degree, six-county catholics who moved south, the SF-voters who don't even care whether sinn féin are republican or not, as long as they put the word "social democracy" somewhere in the back of the manifesto, people who vote fianna fáil because they're from clare. and the people who voted for TDs of the regional technical group. this last is deemed uncategorisable.

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too many people like Lamar now cause the memes told them to and not cause they actually listen and pay attention to his music.

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Tumblr bloggers in the X-Men universe are like "I used to be a Magnetoan with Krakoan characteristics but I've been reading Anti-Apocalypse by Darkholme and Destiny, and think it's messed up how the Krakoan project was so invested in outbreeding non-mutant humanity and how this nation-building drive impacts mutant women" and then a million anons start accusing them of being an Xavierist liberal shill

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a mini cat tree for a tiny arachnid kitty

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do you think the Horse ever gets jealous of the Dog's status as "Man's best friend". do you think the Horse is ever like. hey. you domesticated me too. you rode me into battle. i ate food out of your hand and you giggled. are we not besties i thought we were besties

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— 6:59 AM by Shane Koyczan

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I have to admit that I *do* get a kind of pleasure from saying ‘Israel is younger than India, which is younger than Marxism, which is younger than the United States of America, which is less than 400 years old’ to people because it really bothers them but it’s just basic historical literacy

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Did you know that many gastropods can create a pearl, including terrestrial snails? The difference is nacre which is only found in some species of mollusks and which which gives pearls their beautiful shine. Terrestrial snails occasionally produce very small translucent white pearls which are usually lost. One non-nacre secreting sea snail, the melo melo, produces gorgeous pearls that are extremely prized and rare.

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humanity keeps getting edged by history. Just finish already you smug bastard

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I just wanna get in my car and drive on a single empty road as fast as I can on my way to nowhere. You get me?

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man I did forgot how much I viscerally hate Trump.

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tbh dissing drake seems like a low bar considering some of the uhh people in attendance. If Lamar had real balls he would’ve called the president a pedo to his face

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not the shittiest but a shitty future would be one where fukuyama was wrong about the last men but not the end of history, where liberal democracy continues to break down but nothing coherent replaces it, like how Germanic regna replaced the Christian universal empire but could only legitimate themselves by vaguely gesturing at its ideas

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i think that people who still type “CIS” in all caps like it’s an acronym really shouldn’t be trusted as knowledgable enough to be speaking about trans issues lol.

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Pupils dilated from LSD