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A Shiny Goth! Literary and horny. English PhD in Dallas. The Gothic, Victorians, Feminism, Foucault.
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I was certain that at some point they'd start banding together and make a newspaper?
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Firstly, demonstrators are almost never arrested. They are detained. Distinction? Arrest = probable cause you committed a crime, longer detention time. More severe. Detainment = your movement/activity is being stopped to inhibit continuation of unlawful behavior and to issue ticket/summons for it.
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Trying to sell ads and gin up their follower accounts with bullshit takes.
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Slaughter-House Five, Watchmen, and for your students specifically Quicksand.
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My favorite one is actually the bit about how slavery wasn't to be legislated about until later. There's an actual can-kicking embedded in the document, which necessarily means that it's incomplete as written.
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This is one reason Baudelaire remains relevant
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They also forget that the American Founders were initially happy to remain subjects of the King if they got Parliament to back off.
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Addendum: You cannot make a dent in Christian nationalism by denying that it is Christian. There’s no scalable social solution here except to defeat these folks politically. Further thoughts along these lines here: religiondispatches.org/seeking-broa...
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It would mean never mowing again but also never planting flowers again.
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Ok but Specimen Logic. 👀
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We stan a horny himbo.
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Since when do anarchists caucus. Passel, maybe. Caucus no.