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Hey, everyone.

You can start through this hyperlink here.

That's if you're just starting the A Song of Ice and Fire book series (which the TV show Game of Thrones is based off of).

Discussion question for today:

What are your favorite parts of Dorne?

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2685686

Check it out.

What are your thoughts on the video?

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Sneaky Biden.

Also, subscribe to this person, trying to help 'em out.

took me a bit haha

sorry for any jump cuts, I had to fix stuff around the base (incl. an almost blackout oops) and didn't want to add to the stress by trying to record it.

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On the PRO side of the debate were Douglas Murray (The Spectator) and Matt Taibbi (TK News on Substack). On the CON side of the debate were Malcolm ‘Malc’ Gladwell (The New Yorker, Revisionist History) and Michelle Goldberg (The New York Times).

At the beginning of the debate, 48% voted in favour of the resolution, while 52% voted against the resolution.

Chapters:

1. 0:00 - Montage of past debates
2. 2:26 - Moderator's introduction
3. 7:04 - Preliminary poll
4. 10:05 - Taibbi's opening statement
5. 15:39 - Goldberg's opening statement
6. 21:40 - Murray's opening statement
7. 27:52 - Gladwell's opening statement
8. 34:25 - Taibbi's first rebuttal
9. 36:56 - Goldberg's first rebuttal
10. 40:06 - Murray's first rebuttal
11. 43:17 - Gladwell's first rebuttal
12. 46:41 - Taibbi's second rebuttal
13. 49:45 - Goldberg's second rebuttal
14. 51:55 - Murray's second rebuttal
15. 54:02 - Gladwell's second rebuttal
16. 56:10 - Open discussion
17. 1:22:17 - Gladwell's closing statement
18. 1:24:55 - Murray's closing statement
19. 1:28:12 - Goldberg's closing statement
20. 1:31:49 - Taibbi's closing statement
21. 1:35:01 - Debate results

#MunkDebates #MainstreamMedia #DouglasMurray #MalcolmGladwell

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On this stream: Russ presents his on-the-ground footage from the MAGA Rally in the Bronx - Dave Chappelle has harsh words for Israel at UAE standup show - Glenn Greenwald debates Alan Dershowitz on Iran - and more.

https://rumble.com/v4xje0b-bronx-trump-rally-special-report-chappelle-slams-israel-greenwald-owns-ders.html

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Heya, all of you

You can start through this hyperlink right here and begin reading along with a book while you're listening to it.

Best way to enjoy it.

First book is A Game of Thrones.

Current (and fifth book) that I'm on is A Dance with Dragons.

How are you all enjoying your current read-through, if you are reading along with me?

This is for those currently reading.

Get the first, second, third, fourth, or fifth book from your local library near you. Or get the book PDF from Z Library or Anna's Archive, whichever book you're on or currently starting with.

Discussion question:

What's your favorite part in A Dance with Dragons?

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4649234

I'm watching this rn.

Very good stuff.

I suggest subscribing to his channel for tech stuff.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4649051

I could use one of these.

Actually, no, someone already mows my lawn, but something about this seems kewl, ngl

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The Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald takes on famed lawyer and author Alan Dershowitz.

Professor and legal scholar Alan Dershowitz and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald debate the resolution, "The U.S. should strike Iran's nuclear facilities."

Taking the affirmative is Dershowitz, an American lawyer and law professor known for his work in U.S. constitutional law and American criminal law. From 1964 to 2013, he taught at Harvard Law School, where he was appointed as the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law in 1993. He is the author of several books about politics and the law, including The Case for Israel, and The Case for Peace. His two most recent works are The Case Against Impeaching Trump, and Guilt by Accusation: The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the Age of #MeToo. In January 2020, he joined President Donald Trump's legal team as Trump was being tried on impeachment charges in the Senate. He is a strong supporter of Israel, self-identifing as both "pro-Israel and pro-Palestine."

Taking the negative is Greenwald, a constitutional lawyer, investigative journalist, and best-selling author. Acclaimed as one of the 25 most influential political commentators by The Atlantic, one of America's top 10 opinion writers by Newsweek, and one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers for 2013 by Foreign Policy, Greenwald has won the highest awards in journalism, including the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for the NSA-Snowden revelations.

This debate was moderated by Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein.

Chapters:

• 00:00:00 Introduction
• 00:02:06 Dershowitz's Opening Statement
• 00:19:43 Greenwald's Opening Statement
• 00:37:48 Dershowitz's Rebuttal
• 00:45:27 Greenwald's Rebuttal
• 00:53:56 Q&A
• 01:35:08 Dershowitz's Summation
• 01:40:22 Greenwald's Summation

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He’s been described as a grifter, antisemitic, a conspiracy theorist and more, but the fact remains that he is one of the most viral voices on Twitter today, at one point recently even more viral than the site’s owner Elon Musk.

He’s been banned by most of the Western social media platforms including YouTube and Instagram.

The New York Times descibed him as “incendiary.”

Today we are chatting with Jackson Hinkle, a 24-year-old who has shot into the spotlight as kind of an anti-American pro-American. Confused? So am I, but today we’ll ask him to explain.

This is Reports on China, I’m Andy Boreham in Shanghai. Let’s get reporting!

#JacksonHinkle #maga #communist

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15820908

A Patron of Democracy at Work asks: "I listen to a lot of podcasts such as yourself to get a broader perspective. I love the clarity you bring to pretty much any subject you discuss. I would like your take on something I've heard recently, that communism is actually conservative fascism. It was in the context of the MAGA Communism narrative that has been discussed and in some cases pushed by creators such as Jackson Hinkle. Is someone trying to rewrite the meaning of communism? Or, did I miss something along the way?"

This is Professor Richard Wolff's video response.

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