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Melancholy Jaques
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It is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry's contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness.
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Melancholy Jaques @melancholyjaques.bsky.social · Mar 27
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about – Miguel de Unamuno
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Melancholy Jaques @melancholyjaques.bsky.social · 7h
Because that's what that asshole told them to say
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Melancholy Jaques @melancholyjaques.bsky.social · 7h
Have you seen Ex Machina?
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Melancholy Jaques @melancholyjaques.bsky.social · 7h
I.F. Stone style
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Melancholy Jaques @melancholyjaques.bsky.social · 9h
We are cursed with short run leadership
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Melancholy Jaques @melancholyjaques.bsky.social · 10h
Fact check? Why? None of his cult members and no one in the media has ever been concerned with his lies.
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Melancholy Jaques @melancholyjaques.bsky.social · 10h
This is the administration that the NYT wanted. Let them live with it.
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Melancholy Jaques @melancholyjaques.bsky.social · 11h
Apparently, wealthy donors don't say "Sir."
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Melancholy Jaques @melancholyjaques.bsky.social · 11h
Should Altman have included a few "nudge, nudge, wink, winks" in that post?
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Melancholy Jaques @melancholyjaques.bsky.social · 14h
It will make them more popular with Republican voters. Many times we've heard them say, "He says what I'm thinking."
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Melancholy Jaques @melancholyjaques.bsky.social · 15h
Agree
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Melancholy Jaques @melancholyjaques.bsky.social · 15h
Okay. Deal. Especially with Sanders.
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Melancholy Jaques @melancholyjaques.bsky.social · 18h
That doesn't excuse anything. Voters have agency. I'm no genius, but I figured out.
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Melancholy Jaques @melancholyjaques.bsky.social · 1d
At some point, did he realize that either there was no God or if there was, God did not care about people?
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Melancholy Jaques @melancholyjaques.bsky.social · 1d
A very large portion of people who live off wages eagerly vote to empower those who live off wealth if they will only promise to give them racism & cruelty.
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Melancholy Jaques @melancholyjaques.bsky.social · 1d
Doesn't it seem like platforming weird, lying assholes is the thing these days?
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Melancholy Jaques @melancholyjaques.bsky.social · 1d
Agreed. For some reason, 21st century Americans have connected reckless adolescent behavior with strength and freedom.
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Melancholy Jaques @melancholyjaques.bsky.social · 1d
The main reason the current one may last longer is that the contending parties, more Israel than Hamas, have reached a point of temporary exhaustion. I don't see either accepting the other's permanence.
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Melancholy Jaques @melancholyjaques.bsky.social · 1d
They have a deeply rooted emotional need to erase the black president from history.
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Melancholy Jaques @melancholyjaques.bsky.social · 2d
Triumph? Because a billionaire hired her to put out propaganda for billionaires?
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Melancholy Jaques @melancholyjaques.bsky.social · 2d
5 events that defined your childhood

Kennedy Assassination
Beatles on Ed Sullivan/British Invasion
Space Race
Ghetto Riots
Vietnam War & Protests
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Melancholy Jaques @melancholyjaques.bsky.social · 2d
Exactly
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Melancholy Jaques @melancholyjaques.bsky.social · 2d
Not one person in the media will call him out for lying or even correct the record.
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Melancholy Jaques @melancholyjaques.bsky.social · 2d
It also provoked the outrage from right-wingers who previously barely knew who she was, but now follow and criticize her every move.
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Melancholy Jaques @melancholyjaques.bsky.social · 3d
Doing nothing is nothing to be proud of.
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Melancholy Jaques @melancholyjaques.bsky.social · 3d
Agree that if they wanted him gone, he'd be gone. The ruling class is looking ahead. No more sparsely populated places with technologically disadvantaged people. Iraq & Afghanistan show that the most powerful military cannot conquer a people who don't want to be conquered.
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