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The Washington Post has published Khashoggi's last ever column, which is about the importance of a free press in the middle east:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/opinions/global-opinions/jamal-khashoggi-what-the-arab-world-needs-most-is-free-expression/2018/10/17/adfc8c44-d21d-11e8-8c22-fa2ef74bd6d6_story.html?noredirect=on

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Absolute goblin

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SAO PAULO, Brazil — Brazil for years reveled in its image as a post-racial, left-leaning society. Now Jair Bolsonaro — a far-right outsider who says he “loves” President Trump — has surged to the front of the pack in Sunday’s presidential election, sharply dividing Latin America’s largest nation.  

To tackle runaway crime, Bolsonaro says, police should gun down more criminals. “A gay son is the result of a lack of beatings,” he once quipped, and insists that homosexuality should not be discussed in elementary schools. 

 

He once said that women — because they get pregnant — ­deserve less pay than men. He has called some minorities fat and lazy.

 

Like Trump, he embraces social media to reach legions of loyal followers. His rallies have become outlets for white men rattled by social and economic change. He has vowed to drain the swamp in the capital and make Brazil “great.”

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Bolsonaro’s similarities with Trump are “conscious and deliberate,” said Guilherme Casarões, a comparative politics professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation, a university in Sao Paulo. “Five years ago, he was just another congressman with anti-gay views. Now Bolsonaro, like Trump, has become a larger-than-life figure.”

 

He continued: “Bolsonaro uses well-crafted rhetoric — his slogan is ‘Brazil before everything, and God above all.’ He has been able to reach out to different groups of voters who feel abandoned by the political class. They are now blind to the negative things he says and does, and tend to overlook any aspect that speaks against their candidate.”

 

Bolsonaro has embraced the politics of fear. He demonized his opponents on the left as corrupt, inept radicals and his foes on the right as weak centrists unable to “strongly” represent the conservative cause.

 

Conspiracy theories rule his world: If he loses, it will be only because of a plot to steal the presidency from him, he says. 

 

“I will not accept an election result that is not my own victory,” Bolsonaro said in a television interview last month. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/just-like-trump-bolsonaro-leads-brazils-presidential-race-with-right-wing-populist-pitch/2018/10/04/c4ba3728-c65c-11e8-9c0f-2ffaf6d422aa_story.html?utm_term=.c19218fcccff

Sweet fancy Moses

Amazing how little impact this story had. Everyone's views are just completely ossified. Either you basically assumed this from day one, or there's nothing that could convince you that this isn't a fake news hit piece.

The new Metal Gear's lookin' good

lol, can't help himself but make it a "both sides" issues. Fuck all of the people. Vote no on his confirmation or otherwise don't pretend like you're making a stance on anything.

Release this in the US you cowards

Ready to be done hearing about how Bush is a good guy now because he paints portraits and gave Michelle Obama a cough drop

I have no idea why it's called gaslighting, but I've always understood it to mean exactly this--acting comforting to a victim in a fake and condescending way while explicitly lying about what happened.

So they're just gonna outright try gaslighting her now?

I would think this would about wrap things up for Brett

Jeff, the guy who almost died while live streaming last year and rode out the storm in a remarkably strong blue shed that turned into a meme, is live streaming again

The most recent Hardcore History, starting a series about Japan going from the Meiji Restoration to WWII was very good.

For history I still also listen to Revolutions and the History of the 20th Century Podcast Regularly. I started listening to some of You Must Remember This recently, which is very good. James Bonding is very funny.

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Hurricane-Florence-Expected-Rapidly-Intensify-Serious-Rainfall-Threat-US-East-Coast?cm_ven=hp-slot-1

Wunderground, which does not tend to be hyperbolic and click-baity, is explicitly drawing comparisons to Harvey and warning of a "multiday flood disaster"

Just set up a bot to post everything Jeff Flake says or does

lol how does this narrow it down at all

very cool that the most powerful man on the planet's brain is turning into cobwebs and we're all watching it happen in real time

Sounds like they need a dose of some TRUE PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY

I know I posted this last night. I still can't believe it's real.