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Error 404: The Gotcha You’re Looking For Is Not Found. I am a physics/mathematics student with an insatiable curiosity aspiring to get a PhD in physics.

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5 years
Ladies, if he’s: - Dense yet very attractive - Doesn’t take up a lot of space compared to others but rotates his body fast - Has nuclear pasta - Has an escape velocity one-half the speed of light That’s not your man. That’s a neutron star.
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Never in human history a “resistance/revolution” of anything was backed by mainstream media outlets, government, academia, & the art world at the same time. If your ideas are backed by the media, the gov, academia, & the art world it’s safe to say that you are the status quo.
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@Kaepernick7 "There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs." - Booker Washington
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@rawsalerts He makes fun of black people…silence. He makes fun of Asian people…silence. He makes fun of Jewish people…silence. He makes fun of the LGBTQ community and trans people and THAT is too far. 😂 Imagine how comfortable your life is to complain about a comedy special.
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In a job interview I was asked if I can perform Under Pressure. I told them, “No, but I can perform We Will Rock You.”
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A large amount of black people are turning against social justice efforts because they’re tired of being told they’re too dumb to have ID to vote, too black to not get shot by police, too naive to make good decisions, and too oppressed to be successful.
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@marclamonthill He answered this perfectly. Me being “black” doesn’t mean I automatically share culture with all black people or have collective trauma. We are individuals who are human first and foremost. Hill was trying to trap Rufo and Rufo didn’t take the bait. Smart man.
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“Listen to people of color” most often means “listen to people of color I agree with and condemn the disagreeable ones as traitors trying to appease white people.”
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2 years
Correlation does not imply causation.
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@latestinspace For those of you confused, “Earth like” means a rocky planet, able to support water, and in the habitable zone of its solar system which gives it the potential to support life. It doesn’t mean all of its features, weather, and conditions are just like earth.
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Child: “When I grow up I want to cancel everything that offends me.” Parent: “It’s impossible to do both.”
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“A positive white identity is an impossible goal. White identity is inherently racist; white people do not exist outside the system of white supremacy.” -Diangelo, Robin. White Fragility pg. 149 Many influential people hold this racist view & people are still in denial about it.
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@thomaschattwill There is literally no one of note in the antiracism movement who says all white people are "inherently" racist. No one. Inherent racism is not a thing because racism is always taught or learned and to varying degrees. You are fighting straw men because that's what you do.
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@shannonsharpeee I think the most important point he made was towards the end of this video. He was trying to let them know people hop out unexpectedly and kill people over there and he has ptsd from that. Coincidentally that’s also how he got killed. Godspeed, Nip.
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@DailyLoud Only in Hollywood a woman can abuse a man repeatedly, have audio evidence admitting to physical abuse, tell the person you abused no one would believe she’s an abuser, remain an ACLU ambassador for domestic abuse, not be sorry, still claim to be the victim, and keep a job.
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“You support anti-black sentiments.” “You disregard the REAL pain black folks are expressing.” Sincerely, A white woman scientist to a black man (me).
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“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Dating world observations: There are many modern women expecting to settle down with a traditional man (e.g. Taller, Wants to marry, Breadwinner/Financially secure, etc) while not compromising on their modernity in any way that’s beneficial to the man they want.
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The outrage behind Emma Watson for simply being silent & then putting a white border around a black image shows social justices mobs are after power and not solving issues. It begs the question, "Do they truly care about the causes they're inconsistently outraged about?"
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“Listening to minorities” includes listening to minorities within minorities that you don’t agree with.
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@RapCentury_ He explains why he does so here.
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Critical race theory is supposed to be to the humanities what astrology is to astrophysics. What in the world happened?
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Democrat Politicians: #StopAsianHate Also, Democrat politicians:
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“Black people have generational trauma” as an excuse implies 3 false assumptions about black people: 1. It’s impossible for them to succeed due to past injustices. 2. They are too weak to handle things every culture has experienced. 3. There’s no hope for better outcomes.
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@Kaepernick7 "There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium to make themselves prominent before the public." - Booker T. Washington
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If I had $1 for every non-black person in STEM who preaches on social media to “support black voices” or “listen to black people,” but at the same time blocks/unfollows blacks that question or disagrees with them I’d have enough $ to pay for all of their mental health counseling.
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I’ve had the privilege of talking to the world’s best physicists. Whenever I’ve critiqued their work they’ve either kindly corrected me or admitted when I’ve identified paradoxes. I generally don’t get that same humility from social theorists on gender/race. Why is that?
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If you call every non-black person a white supremacist and every black person a “tool of white supremacy” for disagreeing with you on racial issues and how to solve them, what are you going to do when the real white supremacists show up?
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@_BarringtonII They don't care about black people. They care about how they look pretending to care about black people.
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@Kaepernick7 Race hustling is a profitable industry, as you can see.
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“Few people are able to express opinions that dissent from the prejudices of their social group. The majority are even incapable of forming such opinions at all.” — Albert Einstein
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Another woke scientist can’t believe a black person disagrees with them on politics, due to only cultivating friendships with black people that agrees with her. Ps: I told her “it’s not a thing” as in it’s not a big issue. Plus affirmative action is obviously systemic racism.
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It perplexes me when diversity training advocates believe we all live & operate under a systemically racist society hostile to non-whites, while also knowing diversity trainings are conducted by mostly white people within "racist" institutions where Asians outperform everyone.
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Saying “people of color” is similar to saying “colored people.” Having racial pride is similar to having racial insecurities. Wanting race exclusive spaces is similar to segregation. Yet people still advocate for one today while being passionately against the other.
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How much of critical social justice can be boiled down to jealousy/envy of better performing individuals and groups?
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1. Any officer, veteran or rookie, that mistakes a gun for a taser killing someone (even in the heat of the moment) is incompetent & deserves jail time. 2. Resisting arrest increases the chance of fatal mistakes happening. More than one thing can be true at the same time.
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@pray4koa @BlackySpeakz Rap wouldn’t be rap without soul, funk, disco, and Caribbean music. It’s good to branch out and look up other artists that inspire your fav rappers.
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Two similarities extremists on the left and the right have: 1. They don’t understand what they passionately support enough to have an informed opinion. 2. They have a fundamental misunderstanding of their opponent’s positions & spend most of their time fighting straw men.
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Did the internet make the world weirder or did the internet amplify the weirdness in our world?
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@MrAndyNgo The cost of making new glass, transporting that glass to the building they damaged, and paying people to repair it will produce more CO2 emissions than them choosing to just stay home and sing to one another in peace. Hypocrites.
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@skdh 1. If this is not a joke, this is the reason why I’m heading out of academia. 2. Talk about the exponential expansion of the early universe and how it’s similar to the expansion of gender roles and the diversity. 3. Make it up as you go just like social constructionists do.
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The Past: “My religion is more important than yours.” The Present: “My activism is more important than yours.”
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@BarackObama Using dead people as political pawns to push a narrative isn't as productive as you think it is.
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I used to think modern critiques of the scientific method in academia were a genuine investigation of how to improve the scientific method. I’m realizing now identity driven academics are really trying to repackage the scientific method to make their failed theories fit reality.
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It only takes 2 questions to show how silly it is to blame racism for America’s racial wealth gap: 1. If racism was more prevalent in 1950, why was the racial wealth gap back then much smaller than it is today? 2. What happened since 1950 that negatively changed black outcomes?
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How do you explain this, if it has nothing to do with systematic racism?
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Why do so many intellectuals, usually on the left, like Noam Chomsky think that universities are overall dominated by the right? What am I not seeing?
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@keatingssixth This recklessly uses many -isms making it about race or sex instead of taking it for what it is — a mild joke that had nothing to do with being a black, woman, or any trendy -ism of the day. Violence is violence. Jokes are jokes, even if distasteful.
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Joe Rogan envy from academics reminds me of high school. They’re mad because they’ve spent over 10 yrs in academia & don’t have the public’s ear. Maybe y’all would if you stopped running from debates, discussions, quit virtue signaling, & quit advocating for reckless censorship!
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“The real problem with humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.” — Edward O. Wilson, biologist
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Movements will rarely admit these 3 things: 1. They’re doing more harm than good. 2. They’ve failed to meet their goals. 3. They’ve reached their expiration date and are no longer needed.
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@Kaepernick7 @Kaepernick7 is fanning the flames of discord by over-exaggerating racial issues from his ivory tower while ignoring issues that kill most black people that have nothing to do with racism or police violence.
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You’re a hypocrite if you’re on social media telling your audience to celebrate black people this month by, “Listening to their lived-experiences” when you can’t even listen and much less properly understand the lived-experiences of black people you strongly disagree with.
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@moneymadu Only the guys who are both greasy and ashy at the same time are going to be mad at this.
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@Complex Tupac recorded at least 150 songs in the last year of his life. Artists are lazy today.
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The DEI (diversity, equity, & inclusion) industry hijacked our institutions in the same way the mafia did in the early 1900's. The mobs extorted by offering protection to businesses for a cut of the profits. If declined, businesses would get vandalized until they gave in.
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@LolaaaaaJ @Champagneriqo1 @CarlWinsHigh It’s not something you bring out of a woman. They either are or aren’t. That’s like saying a man is a protector depending on if you bring it out of him or not. It doesn’t make sense. The key thing she said is she worked on herself first.
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If words are violence then criticism is potential violence. If words are potential violence then anyone can potentially commit violence depending on how another person receives it. How do we have productive conversations if words can potentially be conflated with violence?
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@alexophile @marclamonthill Nope. He didn’t accept the terms because white people don’t have a unified culture just as black people don’t have a unified culture. So to answer such a question directly is a trap.
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@ZaidJilani She might as well have said, “Black men are too stupid and gullible. They can’t actually disagree with me and think my opponent is a better leader.“ 🤦🏾‍♂️
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@NoPauseTv_ And this was actually recorded. Imagine what’s not being recorded. I feel for the kid. This isn’t the way to do it.
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@kennymxu The irony in their conclusions is the fact that they equate success with the broad brush of “whiteness” and failure with “the marginalized.”
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@a_centrism @AsheeshKSi @TeenVogue His argument is “board members are mostly conservative. Therefore, universities are conservative!” It’s one of the most disingenuous takes I’ve read this year.
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@nypost What records did he break? What musical boundaries did he push? What songs has he written will be remembered forever? What performance has he done that is memorable to the general populace? What has he done controversial art wise that isn’t putting on dresses?
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I despise right wing identity politics just as much as I despise left wing identity politics. They are two sides of the same coin, even though one side has a bigger head than the other.
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When social justice extremists tell people who are white to not adopt children that aren’t white, do they realize they are contributing to children not getting homes because of their skin color?
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Either women are held to equal standard as men where they interrupt & are interrupted, like what happens in most conversations, or we infantilize women by using childish terms like ‘maninterrupting’ and ‘mansplain’ to protect them from conflict because they’re fragile. Pick one.
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Let's interrupt the gender bias instead of the women who are speaking. We can all help stop the cycle of manterruption by recognizing it, calling it out, and stopping an interrupter in his (or her) tracks.
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Woke westerners calling modern Egyptians racists for opening tombs of newly discovered mummies in Egypt, while inaccurately claiming most ancient Egyptians looked like modern day black Americans is probably the most ignorant yet hilarious woke viewpoint I've heard this year.
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Where do bad rainbows go? Prism. It’s never for a long time, because it’s a light sentence.
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Critics of the woke are often those who used to be the woke themselves.
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Advising kids to study more that are underperforming isn’t racist, no matter what has happened historically. Lowering standards for kids based on their race is by definition racist and it’s also hurting them more than helping them in the long run.
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The addiction to being outraged, even when we don’t know what we are outraged about, is something we’ve never seen before as a species. Social media & its effects will be known by future generations as one of the most significant factors to outrage addiction & hypersensitivity.
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@starstrickenSF This is a good thing. It doesn't help black people that they're being taught everything is racist & the system is against them. It doesn't help black people when non-blacks are being taught to coddle them. It's mixed on whether those trainings actually work.
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@wil_da_beast630 BLM has shown: -Capitalism works pretty well - How bad the media is at investigating. - The world cares about black lives mattering even if the movement is based on a false premise - Raising awareness about police violence against citizens and civilian violence against police.
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@KamalaHarris Equity through government force inevitably puts one group at a disadvantage to another to social engineer outcomes. That's not fair or equitable.
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I’ve realized that if you keep letting insufferable people and bad ideas slide, they will ice skate into making your life and others chaos.
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Watching someone poorly defend a position you support:
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Science is the gift that keeps on giving.
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Following several injuries Brazilian pianist João Carlos Martins lost the ability to move his fingers. But after more than 20-years of being unable to play — a pair of “bionic” gloves are bringing him back. He’s crying. I’m crying. You’re crying...
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@_CharlesPreston Did you take that man home and cook for him as well as provide shelter? If not there’s no reason to bring up someone suffering to express your jealousy of billionaires doing things outside of your imagination.
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@BernieSanders This is a perfect example of a false dichotomy.
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@NYCPBA There are more policies and laws protecting violent criminals than harsh punishments that protect citizens from violent criminals. This isn’t going to end well.
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The same people that are entertaining migrating to MySpace after Elon Musk acquired twitter are the same people who said they were moving out of the country in 2016. 🤭😂
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Saying, “I’m not a victim, I’m not oppressed” offends so many people viewing the world where you’re either a victim or an oppressor because you’re erasing what gives meaning to their unimportant lives. Who are they if they don’t have a dragon (even if imaginary) to slay?
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Fragility - claiming all criticism is harassment. Anti-fragility - finding truth in constructive criticism and then challenging it civilly.
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I think I left a good impression because when I left I heard them say, “Another One Bites The Dust.”
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@ConceptualJames I’m starting to think academics like him are jealous of what MLK was able to achieve in his short lifetime, because MLK took a humanist character focused approach of humanity instead of a racially focused one.
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Be skeptical of politicians that discourage innovation from private entities and make it seem like we can’t focus on more than two things while using children as pawns to appeal to the public’s emotions.
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Space travel is an exciting idea, but right now we need to focus on Earth and create a progressive tax system so that children don't go hungry, people are not homeless and all Americans have healthcare. The level of inequality in America is obscene and a threat to our democracy.
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“Words are violence” is a dangerous phrase because it protects the most violent people in our society. If words are violence, due to the psychological harm acquired from them, then physical violence in response to criticism and rejection can be justified under that definition.
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@ItsGoneAwry Did this man just bellyflop into ice cold water with two weapons in his hands? 😆
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@J_Guilbeaux Most aren’t willing to answer this honestly. I think most anti-capitalists base their opinions and viewpoints on capitalism in jealousy and not reason. Including Marx.
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Racism disguised as racial justice is still and will always be racism. It’s sad to see the city I was born in cave in to racist social justice ideology.
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Oakland to give $500 checks to low-income families - but not if they're white
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@Cyntizzle @manisego His face during Trey Songz tribute was worse. 😂 Actually, If I remembers correctly your gif was from that performance 🤣
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@kathygriffin “Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.” —Friedrich W. Nietzsche Congratulations. You and all who liked/RT’d your tweet in agreement became that monster.
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Most of politics are divided between two types of advocates: 1. Advocates of agency, individualism, self-accountability, & doing something about injustices case by case. 2. Advocates of equality, collectivism, and blaming groups/outside forces for most disparate outcomes.
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@cenkuygur @joerogan Do you listen to his show? From the last 2 years Joe Rogan supported climate change efforts, universal basic income, affordable healthcare, decriminalization of marijuana/psychedelics for research/medicinal purposes, and free speech which was originally a liberal position.
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Most CRT (Critical Race Theory) advocates don’t want to discuss their ideas or have them challenged. They believe that what they know should be obvious and those who aren’t in agreement are acting out of bad intent for asking questions that challenges their sacred worldview.
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Right wingers call left wingers sensitive snowflakes for calling the “OK” hand gesture "a symbol of white supremacy,” but in the same breath, assume every person who does this 🤘🏾 is “demonic.” Same coin, different sides.
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Demonic hand gestures on the big screen, upside down cross, Balenciaga sleeve. Not even hiding it.
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@4TheCulture____ Because parents are lying to their children by telling them police shootings are frequent events, they become this paranoid. The reality is a black kid is more likely to drown in their lifetime than get shot by a cop.
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@DrIbram Sounds more like a projection to me. You good?
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Fragility - Getting so mad at a comedian for telling offensive jokes that you spend days rallying people up on social media to cancel them. Anti-Fragility - If a joke is funny you laugh. If a joke is not funny you don't laugh and move on with your life.
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