CarlP
@cgp42
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Former Republican. Former Evangelical. Change is possible. Atheist. Anti-absolutist. Anti-fundamentalism. Common sense is your enemy.
Joined July 2016
I’m going to be as careful and as clear about this, as I possibly can. As tragic and as horrible as today’s event was, it was something that should have and could have been prevented. And that’s one of the saddest parts about all of this, that not a lot of people are currently
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Imagine what it feels like for them to hear their president call their suffering a hoax.
Epstein survivors make last-minute push to convince House Republicans to release files https://t.co/jbrKwOzJ6a
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Imagine, in 10 years time, a film & audiobook market dominated by the voices of the dead. These actors & their managers don't realise that their eternal AI likenesses will be competing with young actors and putting them out of work. A stagnant culture populated by the undead.
Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine have teamed with AI audio company ElevenLabs to produce AI replications of their famous voices. "To everyone building with voice technology: keep going. You’re helping create a future where we can look up from our screens and connect through
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@MrGee54 @1_jazzymom America will never move forward until white people wake up and recognize that conservative politicians are exploiting their resentment of other races, ethnicities, gender, and sexual orientations for votes, while maintaining zero interest in improving society for the better
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And as a lefty, THIS is how I want a good chunk of my tax dollars spent. Helping other people, even if I disagree with their politics.
Please remember... when New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and California give their tax revenue to pay for healthcare, education and food for families in Mississippi, Alabama, Kentucky and West Virginia… That's Democratic Socialism.
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I’ve seen this tweet from @xwanyex floating around for the past couple of days and it seems to me to reflect some common pitfalls people fall into when talking about atheism. I won’t address everything, but a couple of points stand out. A very long 🧵
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@StephenM The correct term, Stephen, is “democracy.” The kind that believes the people deserve to know how their government operates, especially when that power decides who gets detained, deported, or denied due process. Oversight isn’t betrayal, it’s the backbone of a republic. The idea
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Nobody will be more surprised to find out they are a part of Antifa than the people Trump eventually starts arresting.
For a “decentralized movement,” Antifa sure has a lot of support groups. To name a few: the National Lawyers Guild (legal support) Antifa International (helps with fundraising), and the Tides Foundation-funded Community Justice Exchange (funds bailouts).
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Everyone is getting this Jimmy Kimmel thing wrong. A) It's not cancel culture when it comes from the government. It is censorship and state repression, just like in traditional authoritarian regimes. B) Kimmel wasn't taken off the air for crotizing Kirk. He was taken off for
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We interrupt the shooting at a college to bring you news of a shooting at a high school. This is America.
MULTIPLE PEOPLE SHOT AT DENVER-AREA HIGH SCHOOL: CNN
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Brilliant! Share it around!
Here's a happy-go-lucky 🎶 parody about the way that @RobertKennedyJr is now collapsing American healthcare - based off #PaulSimon's toe-tapping "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard". It's called: "Measles and Polio Down in the Schoolyard."
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MAHA originated in wealthy white suburbs. Jenny McCarthy was the face of the antivax movement for like a decade. Being antivaccine is the supreme luxury belief, because you think you can get treated at any time if you ever get sick from the thing the vaccine prevents
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If this is accurate it might be the most "we're fucked" moment yet. Vaccines are arguably the greatest invention in history. The repercussions of abandoning them are hard to overstate. What half the population not understanding that means may be even more frightening.
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The next hit sitcom….
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Self-flagellation never works. “Yea we suck” “Yea we’re out of touch” “Yea we forgot how to fight” “Yea we’re beholden to corporate donors” Vote..for..us??? Who tf would want to vote for some bullshit like that???
Attacking Democrats while running as a Democrat doesn't make you come off as a fighter but it makes you sound like a saboteur trying to infiltrate and burn down the party instead of build it up
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Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver were great in this movie. Definitely worth watching more than once! 👍🏼🍿
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