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No, I didn't borrow Laura's Mercedes
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Since 1967, the share of US households with inflation-adjusted income over $200K grew from 2% to 14% while the share with under $35K shrunk from 31% to 21% Via @VisualCap
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Tour de Force: New images from our #MarsHelicopter show the parachute & backshell that landed @NASAPersevere. More than eye-popping pictures, they inform the tech we'll need for safely landing future missions, including astronauts, on the Red Planet. https://t.co/UiI9Qvggji
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There ARE people who are marginalized and powerless. But if you can impose orthodoxies on college campuses, stigmatize and even silence dissent, and punish dissenters, turning them into pariahs and ruining their careers, then don't pretend that YOU are marginalized or powerless.
It's remarkable how people who claim to be, or represent, "the marginalized" and "powerless" can impose orthodoxies on university campuses and elsewhere, stigmatize and virtually silence dissent, and punish dissenters--ruining their careers and destroying their lives.
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Hey guys, wanna feel old? I'm 40. You're welcome.
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The beauty of doing nothing is that you can do it perfectly. Only when you do something is it almost impossible to do it without mistakes. Therefore people who are contributing nothing to society, except their constant criticisms, can feel both intellectually and morally superior
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Nothing is more fraudulent than calls for a "dialogue on race." Those who issue such calls are usually quick to cry "racism" at any frank criticism. They are almost invariably seeking a monologue on race, to which others are supposed to listen.
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“‘Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.’” George Orwell, Nineteen Eight-Four.
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Yawn. The notion that Canada or the UK would have the rights regime they have were it not for the power of the US’s example — and the US’s power — is just silly. People are trying so hard to claim the American founding wasn’t a net good for humanity and that’s sad and ludicrous.
It's true, if you even try and *think* about doing free speech in Canada they lock you up in jail. #fact
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Imagine being so privileged to live in so great a country, where even the poorest are better off than 80% of the entire world and be so ignorant to tweet #FvckTheFourth Are there places to improve, things to change? Of course, but only a child doesn't recognize all they do have
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Right. So let’s make shit up like they did with 1619 Project and pretend that’s not a bedtime story. Spare me.
"Dunking on the founding." It's an historical event involving actual human beings. If conservatives want to pretend it's all a lovely propagandistic bedtime story for children, that's on them, but the rest of us are under no obligation to coddle them.
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People dunking on the founding should appreciate that they’re taking a sledgehammer to the very soapbox they’re standing on. No founding, no free speech, no right to assemble, no due process. If you think that’s all just “white supremacy,” try protesting and carping without it.
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Take: When you declare an area free of all policing it will attract at least two kinds of people: 1) Naive idealists who think everyone can live in harmony without authority. 2) People who want to do the bad things that policing often deters. The 2 groups won't mix well.
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إِنَّا لِلّهِ وَإِنَّـا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ Surely we belong to God and to him shall we return. It is with tremendous sadness and pain to say goodbye to my father, Nur Omar Mohamed. No words can describe what he meant to me and all who knew and loved him.
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Have we reached the ultimate stage of absurdity where some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today?
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‘People who menstruate.’ I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud? Opinion: Creating a more equal post-COVID-19 world for people who menstruate
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What implications does COVID-19 have on the global menstrual health and hygiene agenda? WASH and health experts explain.
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