Gabran Gray
@GabranGray
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Writer and musician | | he, him, his
Omaha, NE
Joined August 2013
Quote of the Day You're like a purse but with arms and opinions on social justice.
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I still fundamentally disagree with this kind of take. Of course some people were motivated by wanting to hurt others, but I think many more just didn't trust that dems would fight to deliver better lives and futures
I think one of the most difficult reckonings of this election is that the incentives we thought inspired voting choices -- a better life for your family and future for your community -- may not be as decisive as the desire to dominate and inflict cruelty on outgroups.
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Don't have a horse in whatever specific discourse this is referencing, but agree with the strategy. If you disagree with something online, I think often times the only practical thing to do about it is ignore it
ok i’m just as guilty of warming myself at the embers of the long 2015 but if it’s going to come to an end we have to stop giving any airtime at all to stuff like “reading is privilege” even to Critique it or whatever
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Was having this conversation with some family the other day. I understand the feeling that half the country is uniquely and irredeemably facisct, racist, and misogynistic, but if that's the conclusion you go with, you might as well call this whole society a wrap.
@_grendan it's been really weird the past few days to see many people's aversion to synthesizing "lots of americans are fascists" and "inflation + covid welfare rollbacks negatively impacted people who might have otherwise voted against trump." seems like it's pretty clearly both!
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I'm horrified that so many people gave up on "less harm." It sucks. Maybe too optimistic - I think that if they viewed the choice as "improve things for everyone" or "harm my enemies" they would choose improvement. Self interest can still be a useful tool for universal justice
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The problem is that less harm is still harm. My takeaway is people have reached a point where they view the choice as "get harmed less" or "get harmed the same but harm your enemies harder," and they're sick of getting harmed and feeling vindictive, so they're choosing the latter
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I love Elie Mystal's writing so much, anyone reading this should stop and go read him instead. I do slightly disagree with this take though. I think people WILL vote and HAVE voted for harm reduction, in previous elections and smaller ones all over this year, the problem imo...
People will vote for the party that appears to be harming their enemies. They'll vote for the party that seems to be directly helping their interests. They will NOT vote for the party who is promising to do *less harm* to them than the other guys or the state of nature.
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God I'm posting on twitter, someone stop me. I swear I'll uninstall and stop interacting after like two more days of unhealthily imbibing Discourse
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I think that trying to reach them is some of the most important work men can do right now. We can and should look to women for guidance, but I think it's really on us to help these boys see the wonderful things offered by solidarity, empathy, and feminist ideals.
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Unfortunately, I definitely haven't done enough. I've got a little brother who's definitely started the slide into the grifter-sphere, and I wish I'd had a better sense of how to intervene earlier. I still don't know the best way to go about reaching these boys, but...
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Hard as it might be, we do need to be sympathetic to right leaning men. And by "we," I mean specifically left leaning men. For a long time I've looked at things this way: since the right isn't coming after me directly, part of my allyship should be about trying to talk to them...
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I knew that mf was cruising for a post-rally Runza the second he said JD Vance would call that shit a hot pocket
After his Nebraska rally, @Tim_Walz picked up a $600+ order worth of food at this Runza, a regional fast food chain. “They probably ordered everything on the menu,” an employee told me. At the rally, Walz swiped at JD Vance by saying he’d call a Runza sandwich “a Hot Pocket.”
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Joe Biden's Court Reform Plan is a moderate, incremental, common sense set of proposals. And when the Supreme Court rejects these proposals, maybe people will be ready for the one reform that can bring SCOTUS to heel. My latest in @thenation
https://t.co/FyiHSCPBRw
thenation.com
The president’s trio of reforms marks a worthy first step, but it doesn’t go nearly far enough to reverse the right-wing takeover of the Supreme Court.
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@matthewstoller It won't happen overnight. There will be setbacks. But keep your eyes on the prize - this is the most exciting moment for countering corporate power and giving it back to the people in my lifetime. We owe it to ourselves, our kids and our planet to fight one. eof/
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So much bullshit in the last 48 hours. This is a great taking on what's probably the most heartbreaking piece of news out of the court
The Supreme Court ended affirmative action. The *how* of it is not very interesting: They killed it because they could. But why? Well, because affirmative action was the only policy where the whiteness card got revoked. My latest in @thenation
https://t.co/9xG92eMI0W
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court has struck down the federal student debt forgiveness program. By a margin of 6-3 the Court has declared Biden's student's loan cancelation plan illegal. But Biden can still cancel your debt, here's how:
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I feel like this is meant to be my new banner image, but I still laugh every time I remember the four seasons thing so it stays
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Ayyyyyy Eyeeeee: The lie that raced around the world before the truth got its boots on https://t.co/nf0kPJGVKa AI #ArtificialIntelligence #PumpAndDump #CritiHype EvilSorcerersVsOrdinaryMediocrities
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