jthiels.bsky.social
Work in digital scholarship, linguistic anthropologist, oil painter. Against resegregation.
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They would have to want to
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It is the golden age, bring back the 1870s, robber baron style
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Nestdoor
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Nothing at all. Sometimes your gut is right that someone's a good person
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Could you please add an apostrophe so it's Thiel's policy positions and not Thiels? Thanks
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But what about the Democratic lawmakers who are working so hard to reach out across the aisle? /s
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Who doesn't want a free trip to Central Louisiana or Texas?
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Which leaves the Vaughts of the group in charge
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They want an ivy league degree to mean what it used to, that you're upper crust and generationally wealthy. State schools were for the managerial class types, who were also white men but weren't quite elite outside of their local area.
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I know who to blame, and it's him and his ilk. But watching Democrats lay down, suggest it'll go away on its own in two weeks or stay centrists like nothing has*really* changed, is maddening, even if they couldn't have prevented it. But the real focus should be on him.
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The people having trouble understanding it are committed to the most naive good-faith interpretation that strains credulity. It's the people writing NYT headlines and trying to reframe this all as good government but 'with questions.' The hens thinking the fox is coming to improve the coop.
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At least we believe that somehow they could do better
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slouch here often?
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There are bots on here that are helping to push this, not that many aren't real people but I've encountered a couple
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A lot of people consistently read affluent and crunchy as 'left'. They are wrong.