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I dunno, man. "white supremacy" would like to have a word with you.
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This sentiment, while it makes us feel good, ignores the fact that a sizeable part of our population very much endorse white supremacist policies and an even larger portion don't object to them. Denying this is unhelpful.
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A more directly political analogy would be Bush-Kerry ... the draft-dodging Bush directly attacked the three-time Purple Heart awardee with the swift boat lie.
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Now, now. They are not paid to be courageous. They are paid to be rapacious.
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I disagree. Americans saw the white supremacy and the bullying and the swaggering of Trump I and they said, "Yes, that's exactly what we want." They didn't want the black woman, simple as that.
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Since our political infancy in the early 1980s, we (I'm a GenX-er) have been marinating in the GOP lie that Social Security and Medicare will be bankrupt and won't be there for us anyway, so f-it-all. Instead of working to fix it, we've bought the GOP line that only the rich deserve to live.
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bribe? payoff? i think "extortion" is closer to what we are looking for?
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Greatest accomplishment of the modern Republican Party is learning how not to say the N word ... As long as they don't say the N word, they can justify anything.
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Also, that screenshotted article does not appear among the alleged author's NYT listings: www.nytimes.com/by/binyamin-...
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The Minneapolis lunch you won't find anywhere else is at owamni.com I would recommend following that with a walk along the riverfront, but in late February that would probably then entail a trip to the ER for frostbite. Perhaps www.mnhs.org/millcity ?
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Sometimes, the work is the point, and AI robs you of that.
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One could argue, however, that using deceit and wealth from destroying the planet to appropriate as a toy something that others have built and value, is supremely American.
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I believe they are referring to this history: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle...
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Extortionist publishers ... yes, and ... On the one hand, concentration in media should never have been allowed, and they need to be broken up ... OTOH, publishers are being squeezed by the likes of Amazon, which probably also should be broken up ... it's just monopolies/oligopolies all the way down
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We need to boost library budgets to account for higher e-media usage ... which means higher taxes, which folks tend not to like.
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So, while Libby gives people more access to e-media (yay!), it means more of the library budget is spent on serving people with access and facility with techno (which tend to be higher-income folks).
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Yes, but ... e-books and audiobooks are killing library budgets ... e-books and audiobooks cost libraries much more than physical media, largely because, with the advent of Libby (which is great!), publishers view them as more likely than library physical media to cost publishers a sale.
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In a normal world, having read that headline, I wouldn't have to ask myself, "Did Kenedy mean that as a compliment to Trump?" And, yet, here we are.
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In immigration policy circles, the joke goes: You know an immigrant group has really become American when they start pissing on the next group of immigrants.
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Before I'm misunderstood, I'm not saying we don't need more green energy ... we need a LOT more of it ... but we can't just be pro-green energy, we need to combine it with anti-dirty energy policies.
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More green energy supply won't cut dirty energy use unless we specifically force out coal and gas. The same reason that more freeways don't reduce traffic in the long run: More supply cuts prices --> higher consumption. Green energy, in fact, is a big driver in energy-hungry AI and cryptocurrency.
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Screw tips. Go to a restaurant that pays their people appropriately instead of having workers grovel for change.
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I can't be the only person who hates the phrase "negatively (or positively) impacted". What was wrong with "hurt" or"harmed"?
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This is close, related ... punk version of "The Perfect Nanny" by The Dishes played on This American Life: www.thisamericanlife.org/sites/defaul...
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I think this is the relevant court case: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...
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"I'd like "Intersectionality" for $800, Alex."