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Over the past few days, I have come to better understand the pain caused by the book I endorsed. I have offended not only a lot of people I don’t know but also those closest to me, including my bandmates, and for that, I am truly sorry. As a result of my actions I am taking time away from the band to examine my blind spots
“Say What?!”
Of course, I was talking with several heads of state. I spoke to your prime minister; he convinced me that Israel is the place with the right conditions.
- Mumford & Sons banjoist Winston Marshall’s statement upon being cancelled and forced out of the band because he complimented a book which is critical of Antifa, a radical-left terrorist organization
-Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, telling Israel’s Channel 12 why his company provided millions of doses of the Covid-19 vaccine to Israel, choosing it as a case study for the vaccine’s efficacy
There will be no such thing. Listen, we’ll send the ultra-Orthodox together with Bibi on a wheelbarrow to a landfill. - Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman when asked if he would consider serving in a coalition with the ultraOrthodox parties if it meant ousting Netanyahu
I am not sending a Jew to the landfill, G-d forbid, but a visit to Abarbanel [psychiatric hospital] would not hurt him. - Deputy Education Minister Meir Porush of the United Torah Judaism party responding to Liberman’s hateful comments
I was impressed, frankly, with the obsession of your prime minister. He called me 30 times. He would call me at 3 o’clock in On Monday, I said I didn’t believe Meghan Markle in her Oprah the morning, and he would ask me, “What interview. I’ve had time to reflect on this opinion, and I still don’t. about the variants?” asking what data we If you did, OK. Freedom of speech is a hill I’m happy to die on. have. I would say, “Mr. Prime Minister, it’s 3 Thanks for all the love, and hate. I’m off to spend more time with my o’clock,” and he would say, “No, no, don’t opinions. worry, tell me.” – Tweet by Piers Morgan, who left or was forced out of his host position at “Good Morning – criticizing Ibid. Britain” after receiving backlash for Meghan Markle
For rich people, deciding that you’re a victim has many levels of People their phonesto your decadent, empty appeal.are Forconstantly one thing,using it gives meaning because they worried they will missvacations you can take to life. There areare only so many expensive something andso check St. Barts, only manyWhatsApp, overpricedFacebook clothes you can buy, only so and other apps.This creates a cycle ofAspen before you begin to many dumb parties you can go to in growing dependency cellphones, which realize that none of it on is enough. None of it really means anything. leads to feelings of stress and anxiety, It’s empty. Victimhood solves that problem. When you’re a victim, and theinherently feeling that someone might write you’re significant. something on social and Meghan I’ll missMarkle’s it – Tucker Carlson, Fox News,media talking about Oprah interview and not be in the loop. In short, phones are actually causing people stress, and To whom muchmany is given, much is expected. That was the deal for we’re seeing physical manifestations of this. centuries. But self-identified victimhood instantly nullifies this deal -and Fromrestores study findings by Dr. to Pessia of Tel power theFriedman-Rubin, powerful. No one expects anything Aviv University’s dental school, finding among other things from a victim. Victims don’t theynonreceive. “That poor duchess,” that smartphone users grind their teethgive, more than smartphone you thinkusers to yourself, “I hope she’s OK.” Of course, she should be thinking that very thing about you, but she’s not. – Ibid.
I knew that the Israelis, they have such an experience in managing crises because of the situation they live, surrounded, basically, by hostile nations, to a varying degree, and living under this almost constant war situation. So I felt that they can do it, and I felt that the leader was really going to guarantee that this would happen. So we placed a bet with Israel. We are so happy because the way that you executed was beyond our imagination. – Ibid.
It was really my first real hug of the year. - Renee Behinfar, 43, a psychologist from Arizona, talking to the Washington Post about her experience of hugging a cow, a new pandemic-era fad that started for people who feel like they need a hug
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