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Best one ever, NYT Pitchbot!
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The "widely accepted germ theory of disease"?!?!? We have microscopy now including electron microscopy, and we can LITERALLY SEE THE VIRUSES AND BACTERIA. Let's not act like these are two equally plausible theories and one is just more popular than the other. Seriously, WTF is wrong with you?
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Important context:
Padilla is the Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship & Border Safety, meaning oversight of immigration policy is literally his job.
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this high-stress high-stakes conflictual politics... is boring. It's a stressful kind of boring! But it's also day after endless day of "oh christ, what new horror *now*?" What slightly new iteration of white supremacy, executive dictatorship, zero-sum thinking, rank corruption, and plain insanity?"
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I work with a bunch of neurodivergent people, and the idea that they are either unempathetic or "relentlessly rational" is hilarious.
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They think that, if people can’t afford insurance, that they will suddenly go out and make the money so they can afford insurance.
They also seem to think all jobs come with insurance.
The GOP is the party of fairy tales.
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it has more than anything else told me a lot about the social knowledge or just knowledge knowledge of a class of people in Silicon Valley that this guy managed to be seen as a deep thinker. it's not even the fascistic thinking. There are smart fascists. This isn't one of them.
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Some people never learn.
You can't appease a bully or aggressor, not ever. They'll always come back for more once they know they own you.
And what it costs you to do so will always be far more than the cost of standing against him.
No one trusts or respects a coward. Stand your ground.
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Huh. Imagine. Who could have predicted that? 😑
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You’re right. Countless other people.
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Basically, he rediscovered feudalism and is now very, very pleased with himself.
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Confabulating.
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This piece aims to expose just how bad things are inside NIH.
Agency personnel did not hold back.
One individual said “It’s very clear he has a vendetta against the NIH.”
Another said “people will suffer and potentially die because of the policies he’s allowing at NIH under his leadership.”
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The other tool they will use and have used is the Merchants of Doubt strategy.
Bhattacharya is a Merchant of Doubt. So is Makary, and Atlas, and Prasad. Trump will aim to “find a few stooges in the expert class.”
How to fight? Call them out as stooges and tools of the right and of billionaires.