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I'm teaching my opinion writing workshop again (via Zoom) on March 6th, from 3pm ET to 6pm ET. Details and signup are here:
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It says something about the grotesque failure of sex ed and media in this country that grown men (and in my timeline, men sockpuppeting as women, apparently) do not understand that there is no state in the U.S. that provides abortions of healthy babies at eight or nine months.
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Easy for people who sit at desks to say this but when my dad retired, he was climbing utility poles and doing construction work on the side and no one should have to do that at 65.
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It would be nice if at least one Republican was civically literate enough to understand why attacking a sovereign country is not the same as emigrating to one.
If only
@JoeBiden
was as passionate about defending our borders 🇺🇸 as Ukrainian President
@ZelenskyyUa
is about defending his borders. 🇺🇦
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You called the cops on a lemonade stand?!
Yesterday I was coming back from tennis in Riverside Park and came upon this ad hoc unlicensed food stand. They were calling out to people to buy from them and I asked them, “where’s your permit” cuz we all know the permit has to be displayed. Well, the woman in blue got…
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Why is it so hard for some people to believe that maybe Elon just doesn't know wtf he's doing here?
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My child is vaccinated! (He was very brave but demanded treats as a condition of getting jabbed with no complaints.)
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Raise your hand if you’ve ever had an overconfident male intern who works for you talk to you like you’re a slightly dim baby, and you know why this actually makes Biden seem super relatable
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There are a number of reasons why the pundit class underestimated the effects of Dobbs, but a fairly obvious one is that the pundit class skews male, white, older and is least likely appreciate the significance of the issue bc they're the most personally removed from it.
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I wrote about Amy Coney Barrett's blithe suggestion that no one needs abortion because women who don't want to be mothers can just give their kids up for adoption and why, as an adoptee, I find that argument abhorrent:
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Only an asshole who's a terrible father would consider a man parenting in public emasculating.
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It would be nice if there were any repercussions whatsoever for the president breaking state and federal laws.
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My dad was a local lineman for 40+ years and absolutely blue collar, and when you work more than 40 hours in a non-managerial blue collar job, you get overtime, not back pats.
"It's hard to explain to people in the laptop class just how bizarre this all sounds to blue collar workers. You're being asked to show up to work and you tell your boss no—and you're the victim here?" Always read
@metal_gear88
but especially on
@elonmusk
and Twitter:
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I am not a management genius but if you go into a company as CEO where people already kind of distrust you, then you do a bunch of shit that makes you distrust you more, in public, and then you tell them bend the knee by 5pm or leave, it shouldn’t be surprising when they leave.
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Linda, Elon hasn’t even been able to deliver a functioning Twitter. He hasn’t made it profitable; it is far less usable than it was; and he has basically destroyed trust and safety—not just for users but for advertisers, too.
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The kind of man who wants this believes that women exist solely to serve his needs and in relationships where that is true, the relationship is partly about power and control—a root cause of domestic violence .
All a man wants is to come home from a long day at work to a grateful wife and children who are glad to see him, and dinner cooking on the stove. This is literally all it takes to make a man happy. We are simple. Give us this and you will have given us nearly everything we need.
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It’s impossible not to deeply enjoy the way the Oz campaign keeps endlessly self owning and not anticipating things like this.
"hello, dr. oz campaign? i'd like THREE yard signs."
"wow ☺️ authentic grassroots support at last!"
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I'm sorry, but 16 fundraising emails in one day from a single candidate is beyond abusive. You're just telling donors you care nothing about their time and attention and do not care at all if you alienate them because you arrogantly think you'll just get them back next cycle.
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The refusal to even consider the possibility that women and minorities are outperforming white male applicants here is unsurprising.
Stanford’s incoming class is 22% white. Less than half of that is white men. Now I’m speculating, but admitted white men are likely connected - legacies, or just bought way in. The rural math genius like John Nash - he has no chance. United States is publicly committing suicide.
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Today seems like a good day to remind major news outlets that publishing right wing nonsense will not stop the right from calling you a liberal media outlet.
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And there are a lot of anti-choice women who don't know anyone who's had an abortion who think the same thing. This is the downside of not educating people about abortion. That this is even plausible to some people is crazy.
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People complaining about confronting Kavanaugh at Morton’s demonstrate why respectability politics is a problem. They genuinely believe (even if they’re not aware of it) that a loss of manners is an erosion of the social contract.
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The one time I pitched the Atlantic, I pitched an essay about why cancel culture is not really a culture and is increasingly conflated with observation of basic social norms. Not publishing me is fine, but they seem to not want to publish that POV at all.
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Yes, Actually, I Do Want A Career, And It Does Not Make Me A Bad Parent, And Unlike Vance, I Actually Grew Up In Appalachia: The Elizabeth Spiers Story.
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When Adams got elected I told people who asked what I thought, “the thing is, he lies, all the time, about random shit & I don’t think think anyone anticipates how weird it’s gonna get.”
And everyone was like, yeah, yeah, all politicians lie. And I said, no, you don’t understand
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@NYCMayor
tells the story of how he kept the photo of a fallen police officer in his wallet for decades but it turns out staff printed it out before a NYT photo shoot and even splashed coffee on it to make it look old
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The moral issue here is not that a 10 year old can't physically have a baby, it's that a 10 year old isn't capable of consenting to any single aspect of this and that is why it is morally abhorrent.
@JudyPrincz
@JillFilipovic
I actually asked pro-life OB/GYNs about this and was told that it is possible for a child that age to safely carry a baby, though they'd have to be watched very carefully.
Note I'm not *endorsing* it, just saying it might not actually meet a life/health of the mother exception
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Just remembering that Andrew Giuliani got kicked off the Duke golf team for being too much of an asshole. (And he tried to sue them for it.) And I say this as a Duke alumna: "Too much of an asshole" for Duke is really saying something.
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The people suggesting judges should never have to confront an angry member of the public in a non-political forum need to think about why they believe that. The poorest have public officials invading their personal lives all the time.
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Not only have we done too little to normalize abortion as as a reasonable response to unexpected pregnancy, a lot of people don't even understand it as a medical necessity. This compounded with crappy sex ed and ignorance of reproductive systems is part of what landed us here.
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Somehow the anti-me too people never talk about the women who could have cured cancer except that their lives are ruined by men like this.
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The raging commie socialists at Goldman Sachs say loan forgiveness is not inflationary in any meaningful way but I’m sure JoePatriot627484809 is the person whose analysis I should take seriously on this.
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The people who are surprised that Texas is charging a woman who used an abortifacient with murder have a serious failure of the imagination and have pretty obviously never spent time around single issue abortion voters.
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And part of it, it has to be said, comes from political leaders punting on any responsibility for it for fear that they might alienate some imaginary group of anti-abortion voters that might vote Dem. So they just avoid talking about it or frame abortion as unfortunate.
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I wrote about Jeremy Strong and why "careerist" as a slur only gets deployed against working class people who move up. We talk about class resentment as a one-way phenomenon--the poor resent the rich--but it runs both ways:
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Which is part of why the right is able to spread horror stories about what abortion actually entails. There's no counter narrative. And when you frame it as an abnormal, unfortunate thing, you reinforce the GOP idea that it's what happens when women are irresponsible or selfish
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I find it telling that the people so offended at
@TaylorLorenz
‘s common sense suggestion that it’s important for journalists to have a brand apart from their institution are people with total job security, high profile book deals and a near constant stream of TV appearances.
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And the right has weaponized this ignorance of the reproductive process and how and why women get abortions. It allows the right to ascribe evil motivations to women who need them.
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I have gotten 22 fundraising emails to my primary inbox from three (3) campaigns in the last 24 hrs and I know why this happens, but some of you fundraising peeps seem determined to burn digital channels with small dollar donors permanently.
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My theory about men who say stuff like this is that they don’t like it when women have sexual experience because then they might also have higher standards in that department. But interesting that this guy thinks he’s a “high value” man. By what criteria, I wonder.
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What is happening is that your daughter and her classmates have not been given the language at home to be able to describe who they really are, so they learning it in school and are relieved to find it. This is a success of education, not a failure.
Daughter tells me her class has been discussing LGBT issues. One friend has since defined as “non-binary”; another has since declared she is bisexual and has “known it for ages”. The first is 12 years old; the second is 11. Genuinely wonder what is happening in our schools.
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So they televised every rally where Trump said they were enemies of the state but a speech defending democracy as a concept is political?
People involved in negotiations over Thursday’s address said the networks deemed Biden’s remarks as “political” in nature and therefore decided not to televise it.
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It seems like the Ben Shapiro et al position now is that at 16 you cannot read about slavery in school or make your own decisions about your gender but you can be in an abusive sexual relationship with Russell Brand and be forced into motherhood.
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I don’t expect that I would retire from writing either but if my job involved lifting heavy objects or being on my feet all day or doing any kind of work solely for the paycheck then yes, I would absolutely want to retire.
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Since we’re talking about pay on
#InternationalWomensDay
my best pay disparity story comes from the NY Observer. When I was editor in chief, my salary was $125k. I’m told that my successor Ken Kurson (who you may remember from his presidential pardon re: cyberstalking) made $350k
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This sort of thing doesn’t exactly make Media Matters journalists *less* interested in covering you. It tells them / affirms they’re on to something.
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What's the Venn diagram overlap between people who demand mandatory government issued voter ID and oppose opt-in vaccine passports?
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As someone who lived through the heyday of geocities, MySpace, blogspot, typepad, tumblr, and now twitter… it’ll be fine.
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When conservative men complain about "not being able to talk" on giant platforms, what they mean isn't really that they aren't able to talk; it's that they have to deal with other people talking and suggesting that what they're saying is crap.
Joe Rogan made his comments about straight white men not being able to talk due to 'woke culture' on his podcast which was acquired by Spotify in a $100m deal, that has 11 million listeners per episode and lets him talk about literally anything
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Conservatives like to claim that the children of liberals are sensitive snowflakes who walk through life in cultural bubble wrap, but they're the ones who are terrified to expose their children to books we all read as kids. Their little angels can't be corrupted by Judy Blume!
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This lady wants to live in a gated community, not New York City.
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@iwillv0te
There is literally nowhere in the United States where you can get an abortion at 8 months "just because." This is part of the ignorance I'm talking about.
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It scares some people that a public official could make a decision is devastating to millions and be made to personally feel uncomfortable about it to his face. Abortion activists get harassed all the time and that’s considered free speech.
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Thinking about the Kamala nice pot controversy that right wingers keep trying to manufacture and can’t escape that the outrage is mostly coming from men of a certain age who don’t know how much their mom’s Corningware cost in the ‘60s and ‘70s
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It’s refreshing to hear Biden state explicitly that MAGA Republicans are trying to dismantle democracy. I know journalists who won’t come right out and say that.
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Favorite MLK quote: “This country has socialism for the rich; rugged individualism for the poor.”
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By the logic some people here are using, if the US went to war, any enemy would be justified in destroying NYC on the basis that there’s a military base here and therefor NYC residents are proximate human shields by definition
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I love that Glass Onion is such a spot on skewering of Elon that Ben Shapiro is mad about it. Just endlessly squeaking about it like a pet toy that’s being stepped on repeatedly.
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My dad worked overtime every single week and did contracting on the side. But he’s have never done those things if the company wasn’t compensating him, because he’s not a sucker
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The fact that Thomas is talking about contraception too just underscores that this has nothing to do with the actual ethics of abortion. It’s just about controlling women and keeping them out of power.
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Me when the recipe calls for two cloves
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Okay. When Chelsea Clinton was 24, she was working on a master's degree in international relations, instead of getting paid 130K to book people on her dad's show like Buckley Carlson.
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We'll see how much "mutual respect and tolerance" conservatives have the first time a non-Christian teacher in a majority Christian classroom wants to lead students in non-Christian prayer.
The Supreme Court's first decision of the day is Kennedy v. Bremerton. In a 6–3 opinion by Gorsuch, the court holds that public school officials have a constitutional right to pray publicly, and lead students in prayer, during school events.
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I’m sure “you should never be able to retire” will be a winning message for Republicans.
Nikki Haley tells Bloomberg News "65 is way too low" for the retirement age, advocates attaching it to life expectancy
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In all seriousness, i've heard this nonsense from several wealthy "owner operators" who are ticket splitters and big donors, and it's the most shallow understanding of how our political system works and wildly ignorant of the asymmetries between parties.
To independent-minded voters:
Shared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties, therefore I recommend voting for a Republican Congress, given that the Presidency is Democratic.
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I don't know what's more disturbing; that you can't read the certificate of authenticity, which is also in English, or that you need instructions for a mask.
Speaker Pelosi sent out N-95 masks to every House office. Unfortunately, I can’t read the instructions.
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For context, Twitter Blue has made a grand total of $11 million so far. Next up: eroding the integrity of the platform, driving verified celebrities with millions of followers off of it, making recommendations and polls even more useless… profit!
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There are over 400,000 kids in the foster care system and the right is complaining that there aren’t enough kids to adopt. What they mean is that there aren’t enough newborns who look like them.
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White male conservatives care more about pronouns than any leftist or trans person I know. It’s truly unhinged.
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This is the most epic demonstration of buying your own bullshit I think I’ve ever seen in tech. Elon thinks people will tolerate this kind of insanity because he’s Elon. But the only people putting up with it now are people who have no choice bc they have to feed their families
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One thing that deeply irritates me is the repeated (and IMO naive) claim that if Dems do anything remotely oppositional it will “give the GOP ammunition.” The GOP is not waiting around for Dems to *give* them ammunition. They will fabricate it themselves.
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This is the New York Post, so I shouldn't be surprised, but no, I did not argue that adoption is more traumatic than abortion; I said it *can* be. It is not *better* than abortion. But the point of this piece is exactly what I said I resent: using adoptees as political footballs.
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Odd way of admitting that the military intentionally recruits low income people and exploits their inability to pay for college because serving would not be appealing otherwise.
Student loan forgiveness undermines one of our military’s greatest recruitment tools at a time of dangerously low enlistments.
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The idea that he’s going to suddenly stop destroying twitter and turn it into a near monopoly of everything you do on the internet is a joke. Let’s just take one claim: X will run half the global finance system.
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I teach at NYU and don't think this guy should have been fired. One of many problems with insanely expensive private education is that institutions have an incentive to treat the student as customer and not student who needs to learn certain things.
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Also, the only people I’ve ever heard use the phrase “laptop class” are people who are by definition laptop class. It’s one of those yelling about the elites from the Harvard Club things.
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Money is not de facto evidence of genius. I don't think Elon is dumb by any stretch but I don't think people understand how easy it is to make money once you have a certain amount of capital.
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Lots of conservatives whining about student loans really need to believe the person whose loan is being forgiven is some rich unemployed dude. The average person they're actually calling irresponsible is the nurse who had to test their urine sample last time they went to the doc.
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Lol, the Elon stans telling me I can’t live without Twitter. I’m 46. I’ve joined and quit more social platforms than they have fingers and toes to count them on.
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I do believe that citizens should be able to tell the people making laws that affect them that what they are doing is bad—to their faces—if they’re in public. And sorry, but Morton’s is not Brett Kavanaugh’s bathroom.
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I’ve said before that Elon reminds me of Jared Kushner but his continual elimination of mission critical stuff he doesn’t understand is like, 100% Jared School of Management.
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As far as I can tell from this story, no one threatened Kavanaugh, and what he experienced is a fraction of what abortion providers experience from anti-choice activists as they do their jobs every day.
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I don't know a single journalist who is fine with publishing things they know to be false. Maybe you should get better friends.
I worked within this media sector for more than a decade and have friends at every outlet. I'm not saying this for effect or exaggeration:
Most of them don't care if they publish lies and false stories as long as it's targeting political enemies. They see that as their function.
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There is no civic obligation to shield him from the real life consequences of his actions.
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No employee has the same incentive as the owner of a business, even if they have some tiny bit of equity. Elon should be sleeping on the floor but people who have no significant ownership stake should not.
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This is gonna hurt not just Twitter but Tesla and SpaceX too. Would you want to go to a company run by a chaos monkey?
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This story is just bonkers. GOP chair can’t vote because GOP voter suppression strategy requires ID and he won’t get a real ID because he thinks IDs are the mark of the beast.
Most of Alabama GOP chairman John Wahl’s extended family have been blocked from voting because they won’t show photo ID.
In a 2016 deposition, his brother explained why: They consider photo ID the mark of the beast foretold in Revelation. 🧵
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I'm not gonna RT B*n Sh*piro, who's trying to mob me right now but wow, it's sad what passes for conservative "thought" these days. Bill Buckley you are not, sir.
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I just think that civil war sounds like a lot of work for people who found occasionally wearing a mask a prohibitively onerous requirement
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Apparently being pro-democracy is a “progressive” position now. The goalpost moving has become so extreme that the goalposts are now on Mars.
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Spoken like a man who's had zero encounters with the female reproductive system.
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@ChristinaPushaw
No, no one would. That is a stupid red herring right wingers make up because they have no reasonable arguments.
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Right wingers like GG are so accustomed to being able to work the refs that they go ballistic when someone like Ben refuses to both sides things—particularly when they work for mainstream outlets, which reliably both sides things.
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Publishing bigoted stuff in the name of “viewpoint diversity” for its own sake is just nihilism. The whole point of viewpoint diversity to arrive at a better approximation of the truth, not to create pointless foils to truth.
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Watched Glass Onion last night and even though it was filmed way before Elon took over Twitter, it is hilariously prescient about this exact thing:
My son, who is a software engineer, just told me that people who know software just had their Elon Musk realization.
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I took out loans to pay for college at Duke, the only college I applied to. I was the first person in my family to go to college, so it's not like any of us had any idea how student loans worked, and I had to figure out the applications myself and give to my parents.
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