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Montesquieu on checks and balances, 1748: "When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, there can be no liberty."
American politicians, 2021: "Liberty is your check adding to my balance." twitter.com/dellcam/status…
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When people are like "they gon microchip me to talk to the satellites," I'm like, my man: can you imagine how much people would pay for an unlimited-plan phone you never have to charge? And you think they're just gonna put it in you for free?
You don't even have insurance.
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you remember when the science teacher terrified all the children by saying the sun will eat the earth and nothing will remain? yeah they forgot to tell you we can just pack up the whole planet and drive it down the road like a van.
galaxy brains right here: twitter.com/DavidSHolz/sta…
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Big: The @Apple #spyPhone scandal grows as its own employees begin to turn against its plan to force over one billion iPhones to begin scanning for digital contraband in iOS 15. Apple describes the new system as "expanding protections for children."
reuters.com/technology/exc…
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The Taliban retaking Afghanistan in a matter of weeks as September 11th nears is a tragic symbol of the last decades.
Our governments abandoned law to wage fruitless wars, sacrificed our most sacred rights—and trampled the memory of those they claimed to avenge. Was it worth it?
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Everything is under control. There's nothing to see here. Move along. twitter.com/John_Hudson/st…
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"By the end of next year, America’s war in Afghanistan will be over." — @BarackObama, 2013
obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/realitycheck/t…
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"Our combat mission in Afghanistan is ending, and the longest war in American history is coming to a responsible conclusion." — @BarackObama, 2014
obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-offi… twitter.com/Snowden/status…
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"The Taliban is not the North Vietnamese army. There's gonna be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy of the United States from Afghanistan." —@JoeBiden, July 2021 twitter.com/StefSimanowitz…
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@JaredMGordon @JoeBiden If you think this is a Biden v. Trump thing, you're really missing the scale of this two-decade tragedy.
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For what it's worth, leaving is the right choice—just made decades too late.
Terrorists are criminals, not states. Declaring a fruitless war when we had the sympathy of the world—rather than an international police action—will be remembered as an era-defining catastrophe.
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@magi_jay But I do agree: decades-long wars in foreign lands with no plan and for no benefit, followed by a disastrous pull-out that leaves everyone worse-off than they were before shows that "America"—as politicians understand it—is, in fact, "back."
Nothing partisan to that history.
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afghanistan fell in like 10 days and here we are having used up our national quota of the word "insurrection"
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Brutal image. twitter.com/WhiteHouse/sta…
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There have been thousands of Afghan civilians trapped and panicking on the civilian side of the airport with their commercial jets unable to take off all night, and DOD is crowing about flying out just 500 people?
People that could be on that other side stamping emergency visas? twitter.com/PeterAlexander…
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Hard to believe the lowball figures DOD is reporting here when independent analysts are hearing 800(!) passengers successfully crammed on a single aircraft. Let's hope they outperform:
twitter.com/vcdgf555/statu…
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The @nytimes just reported that the White House, concerned about the appearance of a "domestically damaging" "Saigon moment," ignored "weeks" of warnings that the evacuation operation should be started sooner: nytimes.com/2021/08/15/us/…
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The human cost of the White House's choice to delay our withdrawal for political purposes is absolutely stunning. twitter.com/nytimes/status…
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Hopefully he's feeling nice and rested after that timely vacation. twitter.com/kaitlancollins…
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There has been one constant across twenty years of occupation: the government lying to the people. twitter.com/queeralamode/s…
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This can't possibly be right, can it? Is it a mistranslation? This sounds an awful lot like Macron's priority when the Taliban are in the midst of door-to-door reprisals is covering his flank for some election, not saving lives. twitter.com/AFP/status/142…
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Wow, it's real. twitter.com/BFMTV/status/1…
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Emmanuel Le Pen! twitter.com/FeizaBM/status…
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