realedteach.bsky.social
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There's still a chance for Harvard to turn this into a massive flex by tenuring a few anarchists and Soviet deadenders to the econ departme t to meet their "viewpoint diversity" commitment.
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I'm sure these guys are doing it for pure principle. But if you want people to fork over their hard earned money for your legal services, It's a hell of a lot better an advertisement than "The govt threatened us with some bogus legal action, and we folded like a cheap tent... we'll fight for you"
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Returning benefits to the world.
And the next thing you know, they've created an entire part of their identity and a sense of moral superiority around the idea that they're willing to inflict pain on strangers as a kind of currency to purchase a greater good that never seems to appear.
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One thing you start to notice about people is that they get used to just giving difficult narcissists what they want because it's easy. Then they build an entire infrastructure of trolley problems where giving power to a cruel prick always winds up
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Not the most important point, but mark my words: These flagpoles will be made from cheap plastic. Maybe fiber glass. That is, if they ever even get planted.
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The more serious way to put it is that in attacking Iran, Israel has expanded its military veto from the occupied Palestinian territories and the weak states on its borders to the entire region.
But for Israel to be included in the order that emerges form this campaign, it must set aside that veto.
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Marines and Guardsmen didn't sign up or train for this kind of work.
I doubt many will thrill at the sight of tanks rolling down Pennsylvania Ave to flatter POTUS, while they sleep on floors and get called fascists by the same people whose first words to them are usually Thank you for your service
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This is also true of the press. Watch hours of immigration policy coverage, and you're unlikely to hear an anchor or pundit discuss it in human terms. There is only what's bad for Dems and what's worse for Dems.
The implication is always that voters overwhelmingly hate immigrants.
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If ever there was a time:
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Watching Newsom step up like this is kind of like watching Jon Niese throw 7 shutout innings for the 2010 Mets. You're happy for him, and you're happy for the production. But there's a sinking feeling that there should really be someone on the roster who can do this every day
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I think this is just an incredibly silly thing to argue or even think about, with all that's going on right now. But, at the same time of COURSE it's fucking over! Only a psychotic or a sadist could think under makes any sense.
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He is trapped in 1984. Like that dude from the Futurama episode, but wrecked by untreated syphilis and decades of aderall abuse
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I think a lot of them genuinely believe people on the left should be required to interact with people they dislike. They just don't believe it for 'normal people' like bigots and greed heads.
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Solidarity protests with Los Angeles for tomorrow (Mon, Jun 9th):
• Chicago: 9:00am
• Los Angeles: 11:00am
• Seattle: 11am
• Boston: 1:30pm
• Raleigh: 2:00pm
• Atlanta: 2:00pm
• Charlotte: 2:00 PM
• Sacramento: 4:00 PM
• Asheville: 6:00pm
Check link for updates and locations
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I guess everything's relative. But WRT violent government mass-assaults on peaceful protesters the years 21-24 were a lot more chill than 2020.
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It's weird how 2020 was just so... you know, 2020. Then we had four pretty normal years. And 2025 is really starting to feel like 2020. This historians will puzzle over this for generations.
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This one's also a Confederate tribute. They switched from the better known (a la Dukes of Hazard) battle flag to just that navy corner emblem for awhile. Then adopted this CSA national flag clone as a wink to the deadenders who tantrumed over the original change
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This one's also a Confederate tribute. They switched from the better known (a la Dukes of Hazard) battle flag to just that navy corner emblem for awhile. Then adopted this CSA national flag clone as a wink to the deadenders who tantrumed over the original change
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This one's also a Confederate tribute. They switched from the better known (a la Dukes of Hazard) battle flag to just that navy corner emblem for awhile. Then adopted this CSA national flag clone as a wink to the deadenders who tantrumed over the original change
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Trash Bandicoot?
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Also, there's the nagging fact that if you lived in a state that didn't just say YOLO after the first 6 weeks, every time mitigation measures were lessened cases and hospitalization numbers started rising rapidly.
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Just laughed so hard at this, sitting in a restaurant, people at the table next to me looked over to see what's going on.
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Learning loss specifically was something that was discussed at length in Congress and by local governments as a future cost to be addressed by relief money.
It's legit to ask why better measures weren't implimented. But negligence to suggest nobody was considering this stuff at the time
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Yeah. The resemblance is no coincidence. The militia normcore look these guys all adopt is meant to send a message.
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I think repressing support for anti-immigrant purges is a good first step.
I'll leave it to smarter folks to heel America's morbid unconscious and direct my energies toward the simpler notion that people should be held accountable for the pain they cause.
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Imposing social consequences for bad behavior is a universally recognized incentive for changing those behaviors
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You gotta understand, the moderate Nazis are actually super normal. It's the 'everyone deserves dignity' crowd that's weird outside elite lib circles. If you criticize them they only grow stronger and more racist. Best to keep quiet and make friends on the gym bike. A Schumer aide told me this once