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Free speech liberal adjunct prof. Sanity, whimsy, no mint, no Reese's. 🇺🇸🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇮🇱🏴☠️ Retweets = fascism. Words:
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To answer folks asking why these flags are in my bio...
🇺🇸-Because liberals love 'Merica too!
🏳️🌈-To support gay friends and fam.
🇺🇦-Because opposing Russian aggression is good.
🇮🇱-For my 1/4 Jewish DNA (and to trigger Nazis).
🏴☠️-Because pirates be cool, me hearty, arrr.
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This image stays with me. It was August 2020, a crowd (mostly white) was marching in support of BLM. They demanded that everyone at an open-air restaurant raise their fists. This one woman refused. If you think their behavior was good and decent, we are in deep disagreement.
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Defeating wokeness requires either deconstructing Foucaultian nihilism with post-Hegelian para-Gnosticism or manifesting an inverted intersectionality that creates a Marxist power dialectic to both permeate and validate Bataille’s model of Sartreist internalized existentialism.
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They weren't trying to convince her of the righteousness of their beliefs, they were trying to intimidate her into performing agreement. Many people—including some I knew personally—backed this kind of intimidation, which made me worry about declining support for free speech.
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Maybe when people say they’re “anti-woke” it’s not because they’re secretly in the KKK but because there really are some harmful excesses in progressive spaces.
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The woman was actually a progressive who shared many of the beliefs of the marchers. She wrote about the experience a few days later. She believed in BLM but "it is never okay to coerce people’s participation; that is just bullying."
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Jordan Peterson seems to me to have been a perfectly decent if a high strung fellow, who offered some solid, basic life advice, but then got caught up in culture war madness, and it broke his brain. There are many such.
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@elonmusk
This was not said by Voltaire but by Kevin Strom, a neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier. It's a cool quote and I wish it had been said by a better dude, but it wasn't, and so people should really stop using it. (And definitely stop saying Voltaire said it!)
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I got on Twitter because I was completely against progressive extremism, including defund the police nonsense. I still am. And yet all I feel is sad this man died, no matter his views. It’s not “karma,” or “woke” in action (NYC didn’t defund its police), it’s just a tragedy.
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District Attorneys have a new weapon to use against criminals: Their crimes.
Harvard president's resignation highlights new conservative weapon against colleges: plagiarism
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Teach your kids about 1776 AND 1619. About the Constitution and the Fugitive Slave Act. About Normandy beaches and Japanese internment camps. About Frederick Douglas’ 1852 speech on the bitterness of July 4 for slaves but also his 1876 speech praising Lincoln. Teach it all!
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Chris Hayes' reply to this tweet is amazing. Hayes is a decent guy and is not deliberately lying, so I suspect he's managed to erase from his memory the groupthink and bullying that was the norm in lefty spaces in 2020. A lot of the craziest stuff will be 'forgotten' in this way.
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What land was NOT colonized? Arabs spread out and conquered and colonized the Middle East and Palestine back in the 7th century. The Franks conquered Gaul (France). Native Americans regularly conquered each other's lands. Everyone's ancestors were colonizers at some point.
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Politics is all good guys on one side, evil guys on the other side, and idiots in the middle. That’s all you need to know. Simple as that. No thinking required.
There's no such thing as an informed centrist. Most ppl who call themselves such are actually conservatives afraid of that label's (deserved) bad reputation.
The rest of them are people who don't know much of anything about politics and so drift between whoever has cooler hair…
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I wonder if the capitalism haters know the world has been getting better? This
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chart still has 10% in extreme poverty and many more living in standard (!) poverty but progress is clear. Would they prefer Maoism and the Great Leap Forward?
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82% of black Democrats say violent crime is important to their vote compared to 1/3 of white Democrats. That is my world. Many (not all) of my acquaintances downplay crime. It's a liberal tic because they feel talking about crime is racist. Actually, its sorta the opposite.
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I will never stop being disturbed by so many people's confidence that they are on the right side of every fight. If they were a German in 1939, a Maoist in 1966, or a Hutu in 1994, most folks would be cheering the state party. Why are people sure they're the good guys now?
And…
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There's this bizarre knee-jerk far-left take that
a) Anytime America or Israel uses force, it's bad.
b) Anytime anyone else uses force against America or Israel or their interests, it's good.
WTF?!?
This is how you can end up thinking Hamas and the Houthis are the good guys. 🤯
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And here's a video from one angle.
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"Terrifying."
The progressive fear that your kid might not be politically in lockstop with you! Oh no!!!
The article is hilarious in its mental straitjackets and assumptions. "It might feel dangerous to let a teenager argue that sexism works both ways, but it’s far more…
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It's so weird that all good people are in one party and all the evil people are in the other.
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Years ago a big grizzled (and kinda scary) Syrian gambler told me in a deep rumbling voice the secret to his successful marriage. “When my wife and I married, we agreed: I handle big decisions, she handle small decisions. So far, 30 years, no big decisions.”
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What’s the best science fiction TV series and why is it The Expanse?
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@Halalcoholism
More than a six-month age difference is oppression. I don't make the rules; I just join the screaming mobs enforcing them.
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This is gross. Puffin, publisher of Roald Dahl's classics (Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, James & the Giant Peach etc) had sensitivity readers mangle the text.
Mean words like "fat" and "crazy" etc are gone!
Buy physical books before they all get 1984'd!
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A year ago Cam Harless tweeted a joke ("Every girl is bi. You just have to figure out if it’s polar or sexual."), Dave Weigel retweeted it, and Felicia Sonmez called him out. Weigel was suspended for a month, but she kept demanding more until she was fired. That was a weird one.
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I asked my deli guy what he thought of Taylor Lorenz's Washington Post exposé on LibsOfTikTok. He claimed to have no opinion. I told him that silence was tacit support of fascism. He said my Oreo mini pack and bottle of Dr. Pepper would be "$2.50." His complicity disgusts me.
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Isn't it weird that well-off people emphasize race but not wealth as the main source of inequity? I can't figure out why so many Ivy League professors (Yale median salary $224k) and other rich folk ignore wealth disparities as a source of oppression. (US median per capita $36k.)
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@antoniogm
She's the guy. She had more balls than I probably would have had (although I can hope I'd do the right thing).
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There's a 0.1% chance I'm voting DeSantis (I might fill in the wrong circle by mistake), and I'm not a Musk fan, but suggesting the two men are Klansmen is awful. All the Left's enemies are Nazis, while the Right's are Communists. We live in dumb times.
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Arguing with TWO separate women (on dates, FFS!) that literally abolishing the police would be bad has convinced me that there is no view too insane for a well educated human with advanced degrees to embrace.
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Some myths on prison dispelled:
1- Only 7% of prisons are private for-profit
2- Only 1% of federal prisoners and 6% of state prisoners work as laborers for private companies.
3- While the drug war is a problem, 80% of people in prison are there for non-drug offenses.
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Nonsense. People who believe in nothing aren't politically homeless because they aren't political at all. The politically homeless believe in a lot but have no political home because they can't fit their nuanced worldviews into either of the two parties of screaming fanatics.
"Politically homeless" is the shanty town of people who thought believing in nothing was, like, totally cool, or something.
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So I seem to be losing a few followers because I'm hardcore pro-choice. Um, ok. Folks did know I was a liberal, right? I'm not tight with many progressives because I'm also woke-critical, hardcore free speech, and don't think everyone who disagrees with me is evil.
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During a date a few months back the woman repeatedly corrected my language for not being woke enough. Then she was surprised when I didn't want a second date! I don't mind people disagreeing with me—it'd be weird if they didn't—but I don't want to date my own personal HR manager.
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"Satanic panic" was a 1980s-1990s moral panic with thousands of accusations of ritual child abuse by parents and teachers. Supported by psychiatrists, police, and judges; covered gullibly by the media; it finally fizzled out but few admitted their complicity in destroying lives.
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I'm sick and tired of people claiming they need to go out during a pandemic? Why can't they just work from home? They can get their food delivered by guys who bring it from restaurants who truck it in from wholesalers who buy it from farmers. Why should anyone ever leave home?
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No, you blithering loon. The Navy heard a noise that sounded like an implosion and alerted the searchers. They smartly continued searching because they couldn't know for sure. When the wreckage was sighted, they announced. Everything isn't a fricking conspiracy by your enemies.
The Biden administration knew the Titan submarine imploded Sunday. But waited until today to make it public. Convenient smokescreen for today’s House Ways & Means release of IRS whistleblower testimony of DOJ sabotage of the Hunter Biden investigation.
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To those people who claim that “woke” is a myth, this is woke. A hyper-identity-based, dogma-infused, rhetorically-overwrought, guilt-fest.
As a white person, we must recognise our privilege under white supremacy, colonialism and imperialism. People of colour have been denied equality because of conscious and unconscious racism and prejudice. So yes, we should feel guilty and ashamed.
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The left-wing idea that indigenous peoples are especially saintly is as grounded in reality as the right-wing idea that immigrants are disproportionately criminals.
Humans are all pretty human.
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On Hinge, a match (liberal) asked, since I was a history guy, what I thought the chances were that we were heading toward fascism. I said I had political concerns but that I thought we were safe from fascism and my main worry was too much polarization. She immediately unmatched.
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That Kimberly Guilfoyle was married to Gavin Newsom and is now engaged to Don Trump Jr is one of the weirder facts in American politics.
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WaPo reporter Taylor Lorenz (339k followers) says that people are advocating for EUGENICS (!?!) if they think it's ok for Bernie Sanders to work from home while he has COVID.
A lot of people need to chill. Everything that worries you isn't OMG NAZIS!!! (Or OMG COMMUNISTS!!!)
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"NYPD, KKK, IDF, you're all the same!"
These are unserious children. They live in a cartoon world where everyone they don't like is a fascist (including mom and dad).
Manhattan Bridge has been shut down by thousands of Queers for Palestine marching from Barclays Center to Manhattan.
#nyc
#QueersForPalestine
#GazaGenocide
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The finger-snapping Chick-fil-A story seems silly, but it's an illustrative anecdote in an article about how the Times went ideologically batshit along with an influential chunk of academia, media, and non-profits from 2015 to 2021/22. That big story is the important thing.
The…
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A guy in a red suit brings you stuff you didn't work for? Sounds like Communism to me.
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Construction tomboy Hannah Barron may not be the hero we deserve, but she’s the one we need!
“I just think you should embrace your own individuality, should be yourself” “Don’t be scared to build your own box and don’t try and fit in anybody else’s!”
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Certain left-wing trends—"Decolonizing your diet" "knitting's racism problem"—deserve constant ridicule. This doesn't mean you have to turn right-wing. I support not being racist, social spending, abortion access, and same-sex marriage. I also think my diet is fine. I don't knit.
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Putin invasion apologists are bizarre. Yes, neither Ukraine nor Zelensky are perfect, but Ukraine was brutally invaded by a country 3.5x its size led by a ruthless dictator, and for more than a year Russia has rained missiles down on Ukraine's cities. The villains here are clear.
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So I should instead listen to a blue check journalist? This seems irresponsible.
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Here's the article. "Having a flesh-and-blood oppressor-in-training eating your spaghetti and meatballs can feel like a waking nightmare." Oh my.
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New Yorker here. I ride the subway every day and nobody has ever made me feel the least bit uncomfortable. Passengers are always polite and well-dressed. Most days, uniformed waiters ply the car with canapés while a jazz quartet delivers a medley of Dave Brubeck classics.
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Remember, Joe Rogan may be amusing but his disinformation is dangerous to ignorant and easily influenced people. Not us, of course. We are smarter than that and can clearly see the truth.
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Sexual assault is evil, but false accusations happen, and so those accused also need their rights defended in a country that believes that you are innocent until proven otherwise. Biden rolling back those protections is bad.
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Free speech is good
Government is good
Taxes are good
Capitalism is good
YIMBY is good
A social safety net is good
Police are good
Vaccines are good
Helping Ukraine is good
Immigration is good
Bigotry is bad
Communism is bad
High income disparity is bad
Theft is bad
Putin is bad
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Please stop calling everything fascism.
Fascism is an ideology that advocates one-party dictatorship, hyper-nationalism, a militarized society organized around the state (youth, professional groups, etc) with independent organizations (business, unions), dominated or eliminated.
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This is one of dumber ideas in wokeland. Sadly, everyone can be racist and everyone can be the victim of racism.
@Smileyyeg
You can not be racist against white people. Like, it's like being racist against trees -- not possible.
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The woke axiom that white people do all the bad stuff is a perfect reverse of the racist axiom that white people do all the good stuff. Either way, it's always the white people doing everything. I'm sticking with the crazy idea that good and bad are found in every kind of human.
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Glenn Greenwald's husband sadly just passed away (far too soon, he was 37). Greenwald is controversial, inspiring mountains of vitriol, but looking at the replies to the announcement, I found ZERO hurtful comments. My faith in decency has been bolstered. Well done, fellow humans.
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Repeating a statement doesn't make it truer.
Repeating a statement doesn't make it truer.
Repeating a statement doesn't make it truer.
Repeating a statement doesn't make it truer.
Repeating a statement doesn't make it truer.
Repeating a statement doesn't make it truer.
Indigenous knowledge is science
Indigenous knowledge is science
Indigenous knowledge is science
Indigenous knowledge is science
Indigenous knowledge is science
Indigenous knowledge is science
Indigenous knowledge is science
Indigenous knowledge is science
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The idea that free speech is only for ‘good’ people is not a good look on either left or right.
I strongly disagree with Elon Musk’s version of “free speech.” Terrorists don’t deserve to have freedom of speech. Insurrectionists don’t deserve to have freedom of speech. Nazis don’t deserve to have freedom of speech. Hate speech is not protected by the 1st Amendment.
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It'd be nice if we could tone down on the hate.
Folks who are pro-choice are not eager to kill little babies.
Folks who are pro-life are not eager to oppress women.
People's stances on abortion come from sincerely held moral beliefs (with a nice dollop of tribalism thrown in).
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Free speech is my red line. The right to speak freely, not just safe from government restrictions but also free from excessive social censoriousness, is why I'm politically a semi-orphan. (I haven't moved right because I don't trust the Right on speech any more than the Left.)
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Funny essay from
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Woke Kindergarten is a real organization that sells their services to schools. Their mission is teach kids we can abolish work, landlords, Israel, and borders! One Bay Area school paid them 250k and watched student scores drop. Their “woke wonderings” are sadly hilarious.
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How does someone have a take this bad and get applauded? The Uvalde police department was majority Hispanic. Their inaction was incompetence, not racism. The insistence on seeing racism everywhere is a disease.
No one wants to say the quiet part out loud: if the Uvalde students and teachers were white, the police would have stormed in, not hung around using cell phones and hand sanitizer machines.
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What liberals like JCO forget (or never knew?) is that the NYTimes is not supposed to be rooting for OUR side's victory. Their stated purpose is to report the news to their readers. "Our mission is simple: We seek the truth and help people understand the world."
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This is dumb—even a little crazy. It's Twitter. We can screenshot whoever we want. The idea that Race A can't dunk on Race B is pure, unadulterated nonsense (which is dangerous stuff!). Bree's tweet WAS nuts. Rupar is correct. Biden is not a fascist dictator. Saying that is nuts.
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My "controversial" take is that how you treat people is more important than how you vote. I'm a Dem, but I prefer a dude who treats his friends, neighbors, strangers with respect but votes Trump to someone who is nasty and abusive but votes Biden.
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The idea that colonization and white supremacy are THE root causes of trauma is so obviously dumb. Was there no trauma in China or Ghana before Columbus? Or when Aztecs ripped out hearts? Humans cause humans trauma and always have.
Their outrage at being challenged is special.😂
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Some folks follow me because they perceive me as "anti-woke." Fair. I'm critical of woke extremism. But keep in mind I'm critical of ALL extremism. I'm not going to embrace a different brand of extremism just because it's anti-woke. I'm terminally moderate.
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It's weird in America that all the people with good views ended up in one party and all the people with evil views ended up in the other party.
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Utter ahistorical batshit. Apartheid DEPENDED on speech controls! One of my fave satiric writers, Tom Sharpe, was arrested for sedition and kicked out of the country after writing an anti-apartheid play.
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I hear the hurt and pain that I caused and I am truly sorry. Thank you for holding me accountable for words that were perfectly acceptable last week but which we now know to be horrific acts of literal violence. I promise to do the work to atone for my inevitable future crimes.
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People overuse "fascism" but this statement from New York's Young Republican Club is textbook fascism. "His soul is totally bonded with our core values"? Deification of the Great Leader is classic fascist language.
Also wacky as a barrel of rabid weasels!
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I said yesterday, I didn't care what happened to Claudine Gay. That's true. I'm not at Harvard, I'm not taking sides on this. They can have whoever they want as president.
But I do care about plagiarism.
And sadly, this scandal is teaching me that a lot of people don't!
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Englishman reacts in horror to actual flavors.
This legitimately looks unpleasant to me. Prawns, chillis, avocado and lime? This isn't a meal, it's an assault on the senses.
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Do children's beauty pageants oversexualize kids?
Should laws be passed banning them?
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Disproportionately the LGBTQ community?!?
Abortion bans disproportionately harm:
▪️ Black, Indigenous & other people of color
▪️ the LGBTQ community
▪️ immigrants
▪️ young people
▪️ those working to make ends meet
▪️ people with disabilities
Protecting abortion access is an urgent matter of racial and economic justice.
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It’s not that I love capitalism, it’s just the people who hate capitalism seem to have terrible ideas on what to replace it with.
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You need to know the geography of the Middle East before you start jabbering.
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The music festival massacre hits hard. Someone tweeted (since deleted), "People are killed every day, why focus on this?" Because this is the horror I see today, and it is an obscenity. Kids who were supposed to be having fun left dead in heaps. Some academic safe in their ivory…
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I refuse to dehumanize humans. I first broke with my liberal tribe over the 2016 election. I loathed Trump but I refused to demonize his voters. I feel the same way about the super woke. There are grifters and manipulative sociopaths but most folks are decent most of the time.
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A few peeps have asked about the flags in my profile, so...
🇺🇸-Because liberals are too phobic about patriotism and I'm reclaiming it for the left.
🏳️🌈-To support my gay friends and fam.
🇮🇱-For my 1/4 Jewish heritage (and to trigger anti-Semites).
🏴☠️Because pirates be cool, arrr.
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Problem: Someone voted differently than me.
Solution: Don’t talk politics with them.
Problem: Somebody makes a podcast I object to.
Solution: Don’t listen to it.
Problem: Something *slightly* bad is happening far away.
Solution: Ignore it.
Normalize not being outraged 24/7.
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I'm sometimes asked, "Why are you against woke? Woke just means not being racist!"
Not being racist isn't woke; that's just being a decent human. Woke is thinking that cameras designed to catch people running red lights are actually racist. That's the crazy that I'm against.
One specific, notorious advantage of red light cameras is that they are generally pretty damn racist, placed at intersections in poor, ethnic neighborhoods and not in places where mayonnaise folks like will live.
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It's wrong to lump all American wars together as bad interventions. WW1, WW2, holding the line in Europe in the Cold War, Korea, 1st Iraq War, and Kosovo 1999 all were net positive. Vietnam, Afghanistan, 2nd Iraq War were negative. I think in Ukraine, we're making the right call.
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Dividing people into "good" and "bad" races is just as awful when it's done by lefties as when the Nazis did it. Rao is justifying blatant antisemitism, assuming Jewish doctors and nurses will harm patients.
All racism is bad. From left or right, it's all evil.
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Someone somewhere is thinking differently than me and that is completely unacceptable.
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Had dinner with my mildly woke ex girlfriend. She didn’t know about Ibram Kendi. Most folks—even fairly political folks—aren’t paying attention to most of the culture war. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t matter but it’s a reminder that our overly informed perspective may be warped.
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