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As long as I live under the capitalistic system, I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp.
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Not my lord either, just snarking, but point taken
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…which is not an endorsement of the Palestinians killing a bunch of Israelis. I don’t say this because I’m “bothsidesing” the broader political points, I just think that killing a bunch of people is a shit way of making political points, sorry for party rocking
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There's a whole world of profoundly damaged people outside the purview of my Following tab and I don't have the bandwidth for this nonsense
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Illinois: Cradle Of Generally Above Average Presidents
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Hawley is a lying asshole but he at least seems noddingly familiar with the idea that the world of objective reality exists and that he has constituents he should occasionally represent in between Fox News hits
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It feels like it’s both incomprehensible that there’s someone out there who’s worse than Hawley and also depressingly predictable
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Curséd sentence
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I’m ruminating on the idea of Hawley getting replaced by someone worse
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🎶 something something all the other chicks with the pumped up lips better run better run 🎶
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“that’s why myself and everyone on the Guardian Council are so excited to announce this new collection of digital trading cards. That’s right, you can now own this very unique artwork depicting famous moments in the history of your favorite Islamic Republic.”
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the heart wants what it wants homie
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It’s a pretty sweet gig tbh
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I mean how am I supposed to let everybody know how above the fray I am or how I understand what’s really going on if I can’t say “oh, you’re still surprised?” in the replies to a post about the latest atrocity?
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Goddamn Sprouts, taking our jerbs and tempting our innocent womenfolk with their chocolates and frites
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I can only assume that someone will emerge as the new Drip King
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The problem with making your politics “everything is incredibly terrible all the time” is that when things are actually terrible your politics become “nothing much has changed”
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Thing is, back in the 80s it was still de rigueur for Gerardo to act like it was a misfire to have over promised and under delivered on Capone’s Vault, and the 2025 approach is just to power through it and say”Welp, join me next week for the Secrets of Bugsy Siegel’s Walk In Humidor!”
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John Fogerty makes DMX seem like Gerard Manley Hopkins
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And it’s not like you can fall back on “well, the lyrics are subject to interpretation and who’s to say who’s right?” It’s a fucking Creedence song, bruh. Written by (and I say this as a sincere fan) maybe the least subtle lyricist in the history of American pop music.
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Media literacy is the ability to read a menu like this and deduce that the fried chicken is Extremely Important
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love 2 get correspondence from loyal readers
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For years, we’ve believed that supreme executive power drives from a mandate from the masses not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. Meet the disruptive young thinkers who are overturning the conventional wisdom. My latest for the Atlantic:
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…but it gets particularly messed up when you mix in the fact that we regard celebrities as being both people we form strong parasocial relationships with and ALSO not really real people who were are obligated to treat with compassion
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It’s obviously horrible in its own way when these threats are directed at relatively vulnerable or powerless people…
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So it’s kind of impossible to know who’s at fault here
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It’s possible that the point would have been clearer if they had called it A DAY WITHOUT A MEXICAN WOULD BE BAD ACTUALLY BECAUSE A READY SUPPLY OF RELIABLE LOW-WAGE LABOR IS ESSENTIAL TO THE STABILITY OF OUR WHOLE ECONOMIC SYSTEM
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I love this movie and the book it is based on even more so
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