Working class (USA Today/Wall Street Journal) bestselling author! Numerous Amazon All-Star winner. Husband of the cooler @jmkeep! cPTSD, love, and Union talk.
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This. It was a Soviet-legacy hotbed of nationalists and communists, but when Yeltsin forcibly closed it down, he broke the constitution, and the West cheered him. We ignored the fundamental truth: if you want democracy you have to accept that sometimes the guys you don't like win
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Like @nikstankovic_ rightly point out, this means there are now more US troops (almost twice as many actually!) in Asia, aimed at China, than Russia used to invade Ukraine.
And you think China won't feel threatened by this? It's insane.
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Studies: The single most important factor for successful therapy is the patients trust of their therapist
Politicians and bureaucrats: Yeah so we're gonna make patients see a random councilor for half an hour. No appointments, they have to call before the crack of dawn to get in
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If you're hung up on wanting people to like you, know this: you can be the nicest, most generous person on earth, and not only will people dislike you in spite of it... they will dislike you BECAUSE of it
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My @TESOnline guild does a weekly in-character book club, where we read and discuss an available lore book from the (limited) perspective of our characters. Any suggestions for our next one #ESOfam?
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Reminder you can find me over here:
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Nature is chaotic and uncaring. The universe cold and cosmically cruel. It falls to us to create kindness, order and justice.
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the thing about boots theory is that we're converging on a phase of capitalism where you kind of can't buy good stuff that lasts even if you can afford it, because there is simply no reason for any company to sell you something once that they could sell you 100 times
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Those crazy bastards. Kramer and Newman finally did...
ALT Business Insider headline reading: One family pocketed $7.6 million by taking cans and bottles from Arizona and recycling them in California. That's fraud, prosecutors say
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The biggest lesson here is on the extraordinary influence of US government policy on public opinions. The data couldn't be clearer: it is in 2018 when Trump decided to start the "trade war", stop engagement with China and start a confrontational policy (all continued by Biden) that negative sentiments started to shoot up.
This didn't correspond to a change in China, by that point Xi had been president for 5 years already. It corresponded to a concrete decision by the US to start viewing China as adversary number 1. Public opinions followed dutifully, aided by relentless negative coverage of China by the media.
A stunning 50% of Americans see China as the greatest threat to America. Agree or disagree, like it or not, support it or hate it, this is our reality. Businesses, Investors, regulators, elected officials, everyone needs to understand and discuss this.
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It would cost $650 million for the federal government to pay for all the rice that Canadians consume in a single year. Just $650 million.
That is less than Canada gave to Air Transat to bail it out of pandemic trouble.
It's a choice -- we choose -- to keep people hungry.
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They’re so painfully greedy
ALT petrosofsparta 2h + Disney won't give up 0.091% of their revenue to stop the strikes. Netflix won't give up 0.214% of their revenue to stop the strikes. Warner Bros won't give up 0.108% of their revenue to stop the strikes. Paramount won't give up 0.148% of their revenue to stop the strikes.
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Why do so many people want to live in western countries?
Well over 38 million people have been displaced by US led wars since 2001 alone.
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There are two types of people:
Those who use the anonymity of the internet to lie their arses off.
And those who see the anonymity of the internet as an opportunity to be their true, authentic selves.