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My assumption is that Freddie DeBoer made a deal to never say anything critical of Zionists on Bari Weiss' substack (or maybe elsewhere).

Weiss is a notorious pro-Zionist kook that pretends to be be "anti-woke" about everything except insane zionist radicalism.

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I'm confused as to why it doesn't make more sense for the people in India to kill the people trying to blackmail them rather than themselves.

ETA: Ahhhh, it's more online than I was thinking.

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Yeah it's loanshark apps, and people on the other end trying to get their loans paid back via blackmail because the loans aren't secured in any way.

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FdB is the rare writer who I take the time to read even while disagreeing with just about all his policy positions. He’s just flat talented.

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Same, I have big respect for that guy.

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Any chance you have access to the full study on personality changes after heart transplants?

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Just the one linked in the article.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306987719307145?via%3Dihub

There was a big discussion about it in #random late September.

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I was offline for a week and missed it. I just skimmed it - didn't see any takers in the "do you buy it?" thread. Now you have at least one "yes" vote.

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Wouldn't it make more sense to go after the verminous creditors and/or the scum running the "instant loan apps" than commit suicide???

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Folks in India are killing themselves to avoid being blackmailed by creditors through instant loan apps that harvest their nude photos and blackmail them with them.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66964510

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