Practice makes less imperfect
Hudson Valley
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Malcolm Gladwell just published a new book and gone on one popular show after another arguing that the U.S. needs to massively expand the profitable police surveillance state. The entire argument is based on an embarrassing factual error.
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Do I have this right?
In the lead up to October 7th:
- The Israeli government funds Hamas to the tune of billions of dollars.
- The Israeli government ignores warnings from IDF spotters up to 2 years in advance of Oct 7.
- The Israeli government ignores the entire Jericho Wall blueprint for the Al Aqsa Flood operation they acquired at least a year in advance.
- The Israeli government ignores Qatar’s warning of the impending attack by Hamas.
- The Israeli government ignores Egypt’s warning of the impending attack by Hamas.
- The Israeli government ignores the US intelligence warning of the impending attack by Hamas.
- The Israeli government ignores the public postings showing Hamas training for the attack.
- The Israeli government moves the IDF away from the Gaza wall in the days leading up to Oct 7.
- Once the attack begins, the Israeli government does not send the military in for several hours despite the IDF having military bases nearby and being “one of the most advanced militaries in the world.”
- Once they send the IDF in, the Israeli government orders the military to kill everyone including innocent Israelis (a mass Hannibal Directive). Of the roughly 1,200 Israelis killed, most were likely killed by Israel.
- When Hamas offers to free all civilian hostages on the first day following the attack with nothing in return, the Israeli government refuses to accept the hostages.
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I went to Cuba twice this year.
What I witnessed is American imperialism murdering the Cuban people.
We are nothing but an empire of rich terrorists and soulless murderers.
Viva Cuba.
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I don't know who needs to hear this but if the government has the power to freeze your personal financial accounts simply because you express a political opinion that they do not like, then you are neither free nor living in a democracy.
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Israel has different colored license plates for Israelis and Palestinians.
This makes it easier for Israeli terrorists to identify Palestinian cars and attack.
And cars with Palestinian plates cannot access all of the roads; Israelis can.
But it's not apartheid, guys.
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I participated in the annual ritual by which the dictatorship of capital is superficially legitimated by limited input and qualified feedback from the upper middle class. I’ll take the center-right imperialist omnicide, thankyouverymuch, not the mega-decadent ultra-right variety.
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An empty building burns down in France and there is non-stop front page news, global outrage, wall to wall coverage, etc.
A school full of children are incinerated alive in Gaza and not even a single report about it.
This is why the western decline will continue.
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Adam Schefter is a owner and investor of two sports betting apps. Within a span of hours he tweeted that Jalen Hurts wouldn’t be put on injured reserve. Hours later the eagles put Hurts on IR. How is this not investigated?
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With her lonely stand for Palestine, Sally Rooney has exposed the contemporary literary world as a nest of cowards and careerists
Where are all the Doris Lessings, Harold Pinters, John Bergers, Graham Greenes, Samuel Becketts that once raised their voices against war and injustice?
Rooney stands almost alone
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This is a painfully embarrassing attempt by Greg to make himself look less foolish.
1. He argues that Drake's performance doesn't count because it came against the Raiders, who he says rank 25th in pass DVOA. Greg, where were the Raiders ranked in pass DVOA BEFORE Drake torched them for 400 yards and 5 TDs? You don't want to know. It would hurt your narrative a ton.
2. Greg says it "isn't fair to Stafford" to factor in rushing ability because Stafford is an "older pocket QB." So you strip away one of Drake's best traits just because the guy you're comparing him to doesn't have it? Hilarious. If you really want to make things fair, consider this: Stafford is throwing to two Hall of Fame talents in Puka Nacua and Davante Adams, with Sean McVay calling his plays. Drake's top pass catcher in Week 5 has never topped 724 yards in a season and dropped two balls on Sunday. Funny how fairness only matters when it helps your anti-Maye narrative.
3. Even after skewing the data and framing everything to fit your narrative, you still somehow make Drake look great. The best you can manage is to falsely suggest he's slightly underperforming two MVPs and likely Hall of Fame QBs. Nice, you really got Drake on that one!
Absolutely hilarious stuff from Greg.
Compared Maye, Stafford, and Allen as passers against the top and bottom DVOA pass defenses the last 2 seasons.
- Maye has done most of his damage against the bottom half;
- Allen is slightly better against the bottom half;
- Stafford is basically the same player, if not better against the top.
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There urgently needs to be an official audit of the population of Gaza.
The official death toll figures are bullshit. They got to those numbers early on in genocide and then they barely changed.
Real death toll is much, much higher than reported.
We need the truth.
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Both parties want to keep ICE in their administrations.
Letting you know it’s not just a republican thing.
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I have no idea why the Rams suddenly got conservative when they got to the 30-yard line. Harrison Mevis is far from automatic from over 45 yards. Put the game in Stafford's hands, not in Mevis' foot.
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In 2026 the single most common reason for being called an antisemite is calling a genocide a genocide.
In awarding the Peace Prize to Navi Pillay, the Nobel Committee rewards a record of legitimizing of demonizing Jews, Israelis and championing antizionism.
As chair of the UN Commission of Inquiry, Pillay drove the unsubstantiated "genocide" charge against Israel that has become a rallying cry for antisemites worldwide. She has previously accused Jews and Israel of having "ganged up" to distort the history of the Durban conference, defended a fellow COI commissioner's "Jewish lobby" remarks, and championed the Durban process that mainstreamed anti-Zionist antisemitism inside the UN.
Learning of this award in Nuremberg and using the moment to double down on the genocide claim is a betrayal of "never again." The Nobel Committee has handed its most prestigious honor to someone who has repeatedly given cover to antisemitic narratives. That is not peace. That is normalization of hate. cnn.com/2026/10/09/world/liv…
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Palestinians had literally NOTHING to do with the Holocaust. NOTHING.
And as soon as the Holocaust ended, instead of Germany or other active allies paying the true price for the Holocaust, PALESTINIANS paid for it.
And they still are.
This is the root of everything.
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Years before October 7, 2023, Chuck Schumer called on Israel to “strangle Gaza” because Palestinians “don't believe in the Torah, in David."
That’s what Israel did, and why Oct 7 happened
Today we mark 3 years since Hamas’s horrific October 7th terrorist attack on Israel, the single deadliest day in Jewish history since the Holocaust. The brutality of the October 7th attacks that killed over 1,200 people, including 48 Americans, and took hostage over 250, will be seared into our memories forever. I visited Israel on October 10th and met with hostage families; I felt their pain, anguish, and fear—it’s a feeling I will never forget. We must all never forget.
On this solemn anniversary, my prayers are with those killed in Hamas’s attacks, the hostages who came home through painstaking negotiations, and the hostages who were killed in captivity and whose bodies were brutally held for over 2 years, including my constituents Omer Neutra and Itay Chen.
Today, we reaffirm our commitment to the security of the Israeli people, to the aid and wellbeing of the Palestinian people and the recovery of the devastation in Gaza that the ensuing conflict brought, and to doubling down on efforts for a lasting peace resulting in two states where Israelis and Palestinians can live side by side in equal measures of peace, security, dignity, and mutual recognition.
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Ayn Rand's awful politics aside, have these people ever read a half decent novel? There are plenty of reactionaries who've been good prose stylists, but Rand was a turgid and terrible writer and her books are a slog from cover to cover.
"The Fountainhead “is so dense and complex,” marvels Brad Pitt, “it would have to be a six-hour movie.” (The 1949 film version already has a running time of two hours.) Christina Ricci claims that The Fountainhead is her favorite book because it taught her that “you're not a bad person if you don't love everyone.” Rob Lowe boasts that Atlas Shrugged is “a stupendous achievement, and I just adore it.” And any boyfriend of Eva Mendes, the actress says, “has to be an Ayn Rand fan.”" thenation.com/article/archiv…
