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Hello__wait, what do we call the denizens here? New account, same @DaTenar. Moving is a process.
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But we have an entire intellectual class that has somehow convinced the public — and itself — that describing basic political realities is a form of bias.
"Don't unfairly judge the right" has become "don't judge the right" — even when the facts indicate that they deserve blame.
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But looking at every situation and concluding "both sides are to blame" is *also* an ideology!
This murder represents a clear-cut and common scenario: A right-winger with conservative Pickle-Brain commits violence against the left. Concluding that the left also bears responsibility is absurd.
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It does really feel like Musk was pretty successful at memory holing a whole generation of activists, and activists in general, in the eyes of the media establishment.
It used to be they at least grudgingly engaged us, if only because we could successfully shame them into it on Twitter.
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creating a roving class of elite administrators to run our universities was a mistake, you know?
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"There are good, specific use cases for AI in history" fuck off. No historical work is so important that we need to pave over ecosystems near Black and brown neighborhoods for data centers that drain the local water supply. Just bc you say you're using it ethically doesn't mean you actually are.
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No one ever involved in DOGE should ever work for any federal state or local government ever again
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And here's my point:
It was a mass death event that we never really acknowledged AND a mass disabling event that we've been actively ignoring from jump.
But that doesn't mean that the consequences disappear; it just means those consequences fester & we lose people while they're still with us.
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(6/X) all other considerations.
That is a big part of Trump's appeal, that he will punish your enemies. And it's not just low info xenophobes wanting to lock up the immigrant, it's also writers at the Times and Atlantic and Post wanting to defund the universities.
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🧠 ~gasping in shock~ And it wasn’t a collection of stories?!
I get so invested in plots or what happens next that I’ll either stay up all night reading or fall asleep reading. If I have plans for the next day, I actually have to commit terrible heresy by skimming the last chapter so I do sleep 🥴
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I would also argue that it obscures the opportunities that the US Government had before and during the war to actually save Jewish lives. But my edge of cynicism is definitely based on stuff I learned about the refugee ships turned away, the unbombed train tracks etc. after I was done with college.
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No problem.
ONE MORE 😉
The exhibit at the Massachusetts Historical Society is fully accessible via ramp & elevator, but for your planning purposes the document cases are waist height & there’s a bench to rest on midway through.
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the AI discourse has just ramped up the anti intellectual part of the equation is bizarre ways—while also hyping a product that really can't do what's being claimed for it.
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In Hegseth's case, I would remove the USA flag pocket square (use a neatly folded white linen square, if he wishes). Change the USA flag belt for a normal black belt (worn with black shoes). And swap the camo tie for a regimental stripe in the US Army colors (black, yellow, white).