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"What happens when the militias who're still out on the streets take the arsenals they've stashed to start a war?"
The writings for this predictable scenario are not only on the wall, but have even been in books for years:
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The battle for accountability for Jan6 was lost politically. It was lost politically, IN SIGNIFICANT PART, bc people made naive grand statements on social media rather than the harder political work to hold him politically accountable.
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I keep hearing comments like “I plan to ignore it for the next four years”. This Billionaire Bill shuts down democracy. Look away at your peril.
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Must be flying season. So many emergency landings.
https://www.kcra.com/article/modesto-small-aircraft-highway-132/64867978
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NYT Tomorrow: The assertion in our recent article that black people are more prone to violence was not a racial or genetic stereotype, but based on the reported experiences of six LAPD officers we surveyed at their retirement homes in Idaho
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At this point I think Democrat Congresspeople should literally start putting bills up to a vote which are, word for word, actual cut-and-paste excerpts from the US Constitution, just to watch MAGA fascists vote against the literal words of the founding documents of our democracy.
Comment below examples of excerpts of the literal Constitution that MAGA would definitely vote against.
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Simple sabotage is often an act which the citizen performs according to his own initiative and inclination.
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Weird to see people so cavalier about the complete and possibly irreversible destruction of american foundational principles and way of life…. Terming it as “political”
The same sheeples who will turn in their neighbors during the holocaust because they don’t want to get “political” probably
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Some critiques of climate philanthropy that are a) extremely accurate, b) extremely important, and c) extremely familiar from being repeated over & over again for decades. One despairs that anyone is listening.
Foundations and the Climate Po...
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This is a particularly fascinating problem, because the real root of it isn’t technical at all, it’s ideological confusion that we’ve been using technology to avoid addressing.
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Also did a double take when Salad Fingers got mentioned on Broad City one time
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/3 The New York Times’ defense of this generalization is roughly the equivalent of “our assertion that Thai children are promiscuous is based on reports from unmarried 45-year-old computer programmers who vacation in Thailand more than twice a year”
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My copy of “Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America” by Ladelle McWhorter arrived. I’m both excited and trepidatious to start. I know it’s going to be amazing but also hard.
The way in which the two subject intertwine is deep and challenging.
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I do wonder if my kids will look back on now and the next ~ten years of their youth and remember a lot of the same stuff as their peers, despite the huge and fragmented media landscape. Word of mouth is a powerful uniter even in the absence of media concentration.
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This made me so effing emotional. When our bonds as people working together are at one and the same time the most real thing we have and yet so tenuous that it's frightening to just take a picture together
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New York Times: Chinese women have small fingers
Just mentioned this to Kid3 and she demonstrated that one of her fingers at least is not small
Seriously, though? This is like 19th century shit
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The question every West Point graduate is probably asking themselves right now:
“Am I willing to die for this maniac?”
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