sarachim

sarachim

@sarachim.bsky.social

insufferable ice cream auteur

126 Followers 309 Following 379 Posts Joined Aug 2023
19 hours ago

Kalshi won't pay out if someone "leaves office" by dying, right? IIRC this already came up with Khamenei.

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3 days ago

Repeal Marbury by statute. SCOTUS will declare that unconstitutional, but so what? You just passed a law that they can't declare things unconstitutional any more.

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3 days ago

That man is from Illinois

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5 days ago

I don't want to play through the Bronze Age again

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1 week ago

Even if "hey there's lots of Marine iconography that looks a lot like the Totenkopf, haha whoops" was a good defense, anyone saying that in good faith wouldn't follow up with "vote for me, a Marine, a group that is definitely all Good Guys."

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1 week ago

It's "Great" in the sense of "big" because it's the largest island in the British archipelago. It's a country named Bigger Than Other Nearby Islands

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1 week ago

men will literally write the best spy novels of the 20th century instead of going to therapy

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2 weeks ago

Israel, famously a country that supported the efforts of Nelson Mandela

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2 weeks ago

Yes and "weird stuff happens around Elijah Wood" is a can't-miss formula

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2 weeks ago

I guess because free buses = Mamdani, so the ad means to insinuate that Mamdani's an anti-semite? Who's going to ban Jews from public transit or something?

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2 weeks ago

In a better political culture, the fact that Nazi iconography and Marine iconography are nearly identical would prompt some national introspection about the continued existence of the Marines, but alas.

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2 weeks ago

He bruises easily, partly because he takes too many aspirin, and often ineptly covers it with makeup. That's not really a serious health problem (caveat that I am not a doctor)

AFAIK, it's pure speculation that anything is "seriously wrong" with him beyond being 79.

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3 weeks ago

I feel like that's a separate question from whether or nor Hillary Clinton, who has called the documentation of IDF crimes against humanity "made up" while speaking to far-right Israeli media, has princples

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3 weeks ago

Or, alternatively, the lady doing Palestine genocide denialism has no principles

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3 weeks ago

Tired: Hitting a baseball is the hardest thing in sports
Wired: Throwing a baseball is the hardest thing in sports

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3 weeks ago

IIRC, somebody says that there used to be lots of boats coming to Gondor from the north, but haven't been any for a while (presumably because the bit immediately to the north is unsafe). So that trade might revive post-Sauron and form part of the "peace dividend" Liz mentions

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3 weeks ago

Eh, royals were touchable (mostly by other royals or would-be royals) back when they had actual power. Since they adopted their current role as hereditary mascots of the British state, I'm pretty sure Andrew is the first to be arrested

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3 weeks ago

Well, yeah, that's the point. In South Korea and Brazil, the president is subject to the rule of law. In America, he's not.

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3 weeks ago

He got convicted of 34 felonies and his sentence was literally nothing- no prison time, no fine, not even probation- because he was too politically important to punish. I don't think there's a meaningful distinction between that and not being prosecuted at all.

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3 weeks ago

I kinda hope they've got a Kagemusha scenario ready to go. There's gotta be somebody who could do it

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3 weeks ago

1. He/they, actually, not she.
2. I've given it some thought and realized that arguing with pro-apartheid people on social media is not a productive use of my time, and I'm working on ways to find more useful outlets for my principles. I hope you do the same. Good day

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3 weeks ago

Israel has different nationalization rules for Jews and non-Jews and the latter are a great deal stricter.

France and Germany have no religious test for immigration. Jews, Muslims, and Christians can move there on the same terms.

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3 weeks ago

It is really vile of you to call someone an antisemite just because you are losing an argument online. You need to do some serious soul-searching about the kind of person you are.

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3 weeks ago

Seriously, "race-neutral immigration policy" is an extremely low bar for a state to clear.

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3 weeks ago

So Israel is an Israeli state the way France is a French state. Israel is a Jewish state but France is not a Christian state, even though the majority of its people are Christian. See the difference?

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3 weeks ago

And, setting aside the semantics of equality, there are practical aspect of full religious/racial equality (like ditching aliyah in favor of a race-neutral immigration policy) that, in practice, the "Jewish state" will never, ever agree to

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3 weeks ago

Every French citizen is French, regardless of their race or religion. French is a nationality, not an ethnicity.

Is Israel going to declare all of its Arab citizens Jewish? If not, how will its non-Jewish citizens be equal members of the Jewish state?

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3 weeks ago

How exactly do 4 and 6 go together? If it's officially a Jewish state, the Arabs aren't equal partners. If the Arabs are equal partners, it's a multi-national state not a Jewish one.

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3 weeks ago

She hath me in thrall, if you know what I mean

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1 month ago

This would be easier to take seriously if her idealism extended to people can't vote in American elections, such as Palestinians

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