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Sitting around in one of those night clubs from the "blade" movies , where all the lighting resembles a cold stone creamery , and chatting about windows 98
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I think if the change continues there are going to be some very strange vulgar fusion cultures in a century’s time but in polite society there will be taboos about conducting anthropology on them
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On the day of her death, Corrie acted as a human shield, standing in front of a 60-ton D9 bulldozer, manufactured by Caterpillar Inc. and operated by Israeli forces.
The bulldozer was preparing to demolish a Palestinian home when it advanced toward her.
Eyewitnesses say the driver continued forward, crushing Corrie beneath the massive machine.
Despite desperate calls from fellow activists for the operator to stop, the bulldozer ran her over and then reversed. She was pronounced dead twenty minutes later.
palestinechronicle.com/22-ye…
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I'll post no photo of Mike Jackson the man responsible for Bloody Sunday and countless atrocities in Ireland, but here is one of my father Paddy, whom he murdered. A happy couple. You'd be wrong to think our family were destroyed. Our revenge has been the laughter of our children
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the mere appearance of intertextuality is celebrated by people whose sense of art exists at an object recognition level
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Once @LRB had both a civilian and a terrorist wing. Now it's all terror.
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"To think that I've wasted years of my life, that I've longed to die, that I've experienced my greatest love, for a woman who didn't appeal to me, who wasn't even my type!"
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in my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice: I preferred not to see them
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sino-US relations, 1980s: (skeptical) communist entrepreneurs?
1990s: (mocking) communist entrepreneurs!
2000s: (excited) communist entrepreneurs!!
2010s: (fearful) communist entrepreneurs!?
2020s: (mournful) communist entrepreneurs...
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Old cultural revolution joke: three men share a cell in Beijing, discussing their crimes. One says "I'm here because I supported Deng Xiaoping." The next says "That's funny - I'm here because I opposed Deng Xiaoping." The third says simply "I am Deng Xiaoping."
