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I am here to complain about a crumbling society and occasionally distract myself with memes and discussions of pop culture.
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I'm glad to see all the outrage, but I wish people would start to understand that elected officials ALSO shouldn't have unchecked, across-the-board access to citizen's data. Like, if Musk won a referendum on this, it wouldn't actually solve the issue.

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Kinda interesting how Musk regularly expresses sneering disdain for people who don't work weekends, while apparently not being able to conceptualize anyone wanting to see their fuckin' kids.

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I love debate but I'm increasingly irritated by people who say, "You have to challenge yourself with ideas you don't like!" I don't have to do shit. The number of ideas in the world approaches infinity and the amount of time I have on Earth is limited. I can pick and choose what I take seriously.

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Can we get some people together to sing La Marseillaise to drown this out?

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Our Black middle school had a NASA-approved mission control center. Lost funding yrs ago - conservative school board members. An elementary school here had a whole microvillage run by students - banking, groceries, businesses, everything. School got torn down 🙃 But this BS is allowed to thrive lol

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"Welp! Being the adults in the room didn't work, so let's try being whatever the opposite of three kids in a trench coat is."

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House members are back home this week and I've never see anything like the footage coming out of these in-district town halls. From Milton NY Dems, a constituent of Rep. Paul Tonko talks about the need for John Lewis-style leadership and civil disobedience and gets a standing ovation.

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It's the *layers* of idiocy that bother me. TV isn't reality, but even if it were, why the hell did all these people think that "business acumen" made him uniquely qualified to be president? What do they think the president does??

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"Would a shameless idiot be able to convince me, a smart and accomplished guy, that he's a genius if it weren't true? I rest my case, and no I've never heard of 'begging the question'."

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I think that leaving the party would amplify, not undermine the protest of Naziism as more than one Republucan did so. I also think that's exactly what any Republican with a conscience - at any level - should do. The media wouldn't hand-wave a mass exodus.

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Curious whether this study gave any consideration to the limiting factor of conservatives' willingness to redefine "breaking the law" as "poor and marginalized people stepping out of line."

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Are they the only segment that believe in breaking the law to create change? Are they really? I don’t want to alarm you, but you might want to hit save on your spreadsheet and go read a newspaper

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Growing up, I recall a lot of people asking, "How could the German people let this happen?" but no one ever asked, "Would they have let if happen if they could effortlessly access detailed information about current events and history and had also been warned all their lives to not let this happen?"

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Sounds like someone just figured out that rich white people sometimes have kids with disabilities.

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I never tire of pointing out that there's a huge portion of the American electorate that thinks "we should fix problems instead of making them worse" is a position that most officials and lawmakers have simply avoided taking, because government bad.

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I predicted that there would be a right-wing volunteer paramilitary by the end of these four years, and so far most of my expectations have been *too optimistic*.

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Mitch McConnell will not seek reelection in 2026, according to two close aides.

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Everybody on planet earth has the same number of hours in the day, and yet some people are just plain more successful than others. That’s why Silicon Valley is working on a device to remove hours from underperformers (poor people, kids, poets,) and transfer them to deserving CEOs

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