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Busy writing about economics, and/or rewatching Challengers

Buenos Aires, Argentina
Joined July 2022
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New Substack post: would you read this post if I made you opt out of reading it instead?
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They work fast
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the democrat party ticket:
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A lot of stupid celebrity children's names are actually just fake and they say their kid is named Orchid or whatever just so the media doesn't know the actual one
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What's your goofiest low-stakes conspiracy theory? I believe the 2016 clown panic was a psyop to test how panics can be spread via social media.
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the woman meeting obama (in 2011) is the little girl from the painting
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@PopulismUpdates
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What are the craziest two people/things to coexist at the same time in history?
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This feels racist but against humans as a species
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Am I the only one who remembered this?
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Gen Z denying having a Harry Potter phase like Oppneheimer trying to beat the communist party member allegations
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NYT connections I have received your message and will proceed to the coordinates
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Bro is so bad at it she's invented outsider trading
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Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene bought CrowdStrike stock, $CRWD, last month. It has fallen 40% since then. So far one of the worst trades we've ever seen:
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Hate these modernist logo changes
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It's pretty funny when people use Barnett Newman as like an example of terrible zero effort modern art because when some nutjob slashed one of his paintings nobody wanted to restore it because the way it was painted was way too complex
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‘Modern Family’ premiered 14 years ago today.
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do people not know the menswear guy has a phd in political economy? the prodigal son returns to econ twitter
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Some misinformation in today's US presidential debate about who bears the cost of tariffs. So let's talk about how tariffs affect what you pay for a suit. 🧵
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@thedailybeast
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The Vatican has informed a Donald Trump-supporting archbishop that he is being excommunicated for refusing to recognize Pope Francis' authority after years of outspoken public attacks.
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One time in summer camp I asked the rabbi if it was kosher to eat ham flavored chips if they didn't actually have any ham in the ingredients and that's the kind of question that takes up 80% of the Talmud and it ends with two elderly throwing hands over it
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@AshleySchapitl
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NEWS: Treasury and the IRS are announcing today that Direct File is here to stay. Direct File will be a permanent, free option to save taxpayers ⏰ and 💵. We are inviting all 50 states and D.C. to join Direct File in 2025. All thanks to @POTUS Inflation Reduction Act. 👏
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The menswear guy is clearly the apex predator of posting about suits and people consistently think they can measure up. You should have learnt to keep your distance after he called that guy's tailor
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The only good consequence of Musk’s new algo is it pushed this random menswear guy into everyone’s feed, at which point it became clear he has a once-a-generation talent for posting.
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2018: Elon Musk is the new Henry Ford 2023: Elon Musk is the new Henry Ford
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@JosephPolitano
Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈
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Elon's going down a very, very dark place
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Mood level in Argentina: my therapist cancelled today's session
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The menswear guy is literally the Bane of posting. He grew up in a violent posting pit, clawed his way up, and then descended upon unknowing, underpowered idiots
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when i was on a menswear forum, a n00b claimed his shoes were handwelted, so an older forum member bought a pair of the shoes for $400, ripped them apart, and proved they were not handwelted, thus triggering a series of events that brought down a shoe factory in italy
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we need a pride flag for unemployed people
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It's wild that the medicis are still around like people on this website think you have generational wealth if your house had two tvs and meanwhile there's people out there whose ancestors are playable in civ
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Harry Potter has a recurring bit where Lucius Malfoy is painted as an unreasonable jerk for trying to get Dumbledore fired except the reason is, more or less "letting a serial killer target multiple students" every single time
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the reason why pop culture seems better in the distant past is quite literally this
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@janecoaston
Jane Coaston 🏔️
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I’m aware this is a popular opinion but folks seem unaware of just how much popular culture sucked in previous decades and even prior centuries. Abraham Lincoln was murdered watching a play that was actual trash.
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Something I love about DC is that it's absolutely unhinged in a way basically no other cities are because it's Americans (who are definitionally nuts) but also it's like, a sports fandom city where the sport is partisan politics
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Beautiful day in Washington, D.c.
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I'm sorry but why are they inviting Germany to these things
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Odd decision for Sunak not to attend world leaders D-day event in Normandy and instead return early to UK to campaign.
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the reason the electoral college is dumb is basically that the two people with actual presidential campaigns have to spend a combined 15 billion dollars to convince a whopping 200,000 people to vote for them, out of a population of 330,000,000
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my favorite thing about electoral college defenders is that they genuinely seem to have no idea what it is or what it does
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Okay but who thought this was a good idea??
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Like, ever? That's not a lot
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A pro-life democrat against the abortion drug that’s killed 28 women (so far)
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@ChaseMit
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We all dealt with 9/11 in our own ways
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Why didnt the fremen do this
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It's so insane that digging a bunch of holes works so well at reversing desertification
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Yeah Tolkien had definitive good and evil with no moral complexity or ambiguity
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Tiktok conservatives are like dodos or kakapos, they have grown fat and complacent due to facing no real threats. If Reddit atheists, their natural predators, end up descending on them... it doesn't look pretty
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Kristi Yamaguccimane
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Thought he had an easy target. Didn’t realize dude rockin the sandals/jeans/ponytail/solo Bluetooth was born into the shitty internet debate. Molded by it. When Mr TikTok was out partying he was studying Usenet archives and paying for Something Awful…
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Taylor Swift to Jor Alwyn: pls get off the couch and get a job Taylor Swift to Matty Healy:
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Japanese people saying the US won't take responsibility for its war crimes is pretty much the perfect example of people who live in glass houses throwing stones
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Oppenheimer has been released in Japan, eight months after its global release. We spoke to historian Naoko Wake to learn why the U.S. refuses to take accountability for the war crimes it committed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and why all of this is relevant to us today.
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It's kind of funny how the average man in the Kennedy family is like, Satan incarnate, and the average woman is a humanitarian who founded 14 charities that help homeless veterans and their dogs
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elaine benes if she was alive in 2023:
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Okay this is insane
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@jburnmurdoch
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NEW: last week a group of US hardline conservatives brought the National Conservatism conference to London. It fell completely flat. Why? Because Britain and America are completely different societies. Key chart: UK Cons are *way* more liberal than US Reps on ~every measure.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Nikki Haley will suspend her presidential campaign, leaving Donald Trump as last major Republican candidate, sources say.
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Polyamory isn't actually popular it's just that every single US journalist is addicted to twitter, where polyamory is popular
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"How Did Polyamory Become so Popular?" Because men like to sleep with different women, and mothers of small kids don't want to get divorced.
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Also that Bill and Hillary Clinton actually have an open marriage and have had for a long time and just pretended he cheated and she was mad because people would be weirded out by it
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First look at Timothee Chalamet and Elle Fanning in YOUNG JERRY, a Seinfeld prequel focusing on Jerry's twenties
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the weirdest fact i've found out is that the term "Hitler particles" comes from leon trotsky himself and not like, some 50 follower account called mr_papaya
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Jesus Christ what the fuck was that trial
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I wrote an obituary for OJ Simpson.
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@MissPavIichenko This is basically the one example where I do believe it. She's incredible strange and he's a moron, of course their kids have fucked up names
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The people calling Josh O'Connor a "hot rodent boyfriend" after finding out he's Jewish
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Atheists are baaaaack baby, and trads have no natural antibodies to them these days
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Kimberly Morgan🐟 26947 #FollowBackResistance# BLM
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These are the fuckers who want to rule us. 👇
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The funniest part, by far, is how the "cognitively impaired" driver was just doing the oldest taxi driver scam in the book to the author, who fell for it
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Rebecca Sear
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Race scientists asking the hard questions: are large proportions of people in the Global South really intellectually impaired? Answer: of course they are Evidence? A conversation the race scientist had with a taxi driver in Ecuador 🤦‍♀️
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this motherforker is now higher than it was before yesterday
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this was the best tweet of the year tho. 26 days in and they knocked it out of the park
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Jeremiah Johnson 🌐
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(6) The French vs (11) Vegans are Fake
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American farmers explaining why people who live in cities should be mass sterilized instead of just not subsidizing water to grow tropical crops in the middle of the desert:
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BREAKING: Fed announces that Jerome Powell received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. He has embraced Islamic Banking and the Fed Funds Rate is now 0%. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!
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still don’t get how an “expat” is different from an immigrant
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😭😭😭😭😭
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President J. Milei: “We know through the Nixon and Kissenger files that they supported the abortion agenda” 🇦🇷
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Americans finding out about bank transfers without 5 parasitic apps as intermediaries
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Americans finding out that Latin America has more than one ethnicity and that sometimes those ethnicities are not nice to each other
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They’re doing it. They’re making Latinos white.
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Microeconomics/macroeconomics
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"Elon Musk is the new Henry Ford" 2019 / 2023
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@jh_swanson
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Elon Musk is liking posts from neo-Nazis.
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The sum total knowledge of development economics is contained in these three volumes
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It's like if the apes from planet of the apes did anti human minstrel shows
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Taylor Swift has had a measurable effect on the US economy, boosting GDP growth by around 5%. Therefore, an idea: when the economy is running too cold, the Fed deploys Taylor on tour to boost spending. And when it's running hot, it makes her go on hiatus. Call this a Taylor Rule
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Once upon a time, everyone was worried about a recession. But then, nothing ever happened. The End
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Boom. That 50 did the job *US JOBLESS CLAIMS 219,000 IN SEPT. 14 WEEK; EST. 230K
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Some guy did try to because he was one of thode "my toddler" guys, used regular paint and a paint roller, and did such a bad job that even the painting slasher hated it
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Boomers: we're all trying to find the guy who did this
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It is fairly weird how the American public flies precisely two flags in front of every government building: 1) the US flag and 2) a scary flag promoting a false and nonsensical conspiracy theory with no backing except deranged reactionary bullcrap from 30 years ago
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gay person: I’m gay straight person: I’m straight bi person: I’m bisexual guy who got his phd in harvard: I went to school in boston
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"The Fremen are the good guys" mfs when Dune Messiah comes out and they kill 61 billion people in a mostly unjustified war of aggression
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Sydney Sweeney reveals in an interview that she's a big critic of Why Nations Fail. "I think people who like it probably just don't know how flawed the research supporting it is." She adds, "Freakonomics is even worse, though"
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Germans when you ask them to run a fiscal deficit for two years in response to a massive economic depression:
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Europeans proposing sending the entire continent into a decades-long depression so Germany doesn't have to run a fiscal deficit for one millisecond:
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@_night_brain__
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every paragraph in that ft article springs anew with european determination to be as obtusely omnicidal as possible
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Europeans when you tell them not to reducd aggregate demand in a recession
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France tightens budget as economic growth slows
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died 1800 bc born 2000 ad welcome back ea nasir
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Microsoft is a crazy thing to name your company
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The answer was thag technically yes but it was spiritually not cool and wasn't a good example at summer camp so it wouldn't be allowed
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INFO: to play Wednesday Addams, a heartless, soulless, cold character, actress Jenna Ortega spent a month in an economics PhD program
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My favorite niche cultural difference is that for Americans 6 feet is how you define "tall", but in metric world (aka normal countries) it's 1.80, which is 5'10 bordering on 5'11. So maybe USoid men do face unrealistic height standards
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data science? no i think id rather date a person
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Merry Christmas
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Recession CANCELLED
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BREAKING: Switzerland's government set to propose a ban on Hamas
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German macroeconomic policy be like
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1992: macroeconomics is useless. Study micro. 2002: macroeconomics is useless. Study micro. 2012: macroeconomics is useless. Study micro. 2022: Why does nobody know what inflation or a recession are?
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Zero obligation to like it or think it's good but like... there's actual work there
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argentina having been a relatively well-off country until a couple decades ago is crazy because suddenly you have a bunch of these art deco futurist masterpieces located in random tiny towns in the middle of bumfuck nowhere
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> invent sport > be good at it > play country that doesn't care > 0-0 tie How is England even real
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One shocker plot twist I encountered in real life was discovering, around age 14, that the popular kids were actually the nice ones, while there were some truly malevolent characters hiding among the nerds & outcasts.
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🚨BREAKING 🚨🚨: In recent meeting with House Democrats, Joe Biden reportedly mixed up Daemon, Aemond, Aegon, Aemon, Daeron, Maelor, Baelon, Aerion, Maegon, Gaemon, Vaegon, Aelor, Maegor, Aerys, Aenys, and Aenar
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> the alliance between Le Pen and the conservatives is dead > the alliance between Le Pen and Zenmour is dead > the left wing alliance is already on track
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Juliette Briens
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🔴La réunion extraordinaire au siège de Reconquête ne s’est pas éternisée tant la violence semblait inévitable. « C’est votre faute si l’alliance ne s’est pas faite ! Maintenant, démerdez-vous » Les coulisses d’une folle journée | L’Incorrect
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Trump: If you graduate from a college you should get automatically as part of your diploma a Green card to be able to stay in the United States
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Ate them up unfortunately
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@nathanallebach
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ContraPoints in the TRENCHES trying to reason with the anti-electoralism left
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women have been increasingly sadder since 1973. what else happened in that year? the us going off the gold standard. much to think about
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Germany when you tell them to not do megausterity during a recession for no reason and with no benefits
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🚨18 EU member states will not be able to meet their targets for investment in schools, hospitals and housing under plans for new economic governance rules. According to a new study by @NEF for @etuc_ces .
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