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Only by viewing them as fools or victims, but Warner has neither excuse here. His "Republican friends" have had 10 years to process what they're doing. They're not your friends, Mark. They're cowardly and power-hungry.
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A reminder to Muslims voters that he was eager to ban you.
www.cato.org/blog/dozen-t...
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1) "Read a fucking book[]" does not come across as calm.
2) You taken no effort to dissuade me that you're talking down to me.
3) Your "point" was that I incorrectly claimed that asylum was formally granted, when I stated no such claim. Again, irrelevant.
You're a troll. And muted. 🥳
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I know; I said "essentially". I've read the reporting. Your attempt at a point doesn't rebut or respond to anything relevant that I just said.
Really appreciate your snark and condescension, btw. I'll get back to you if you can calm yourself. I'm trying to have a conversation, not an argument.
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Apathy is death. Inaction is how we sleepwalk into a dictatorship. And if we find ourselves in one, throwing up our hands will not bail us out. We must make difficult decisions and good trouble.
Please don't stay on the sideline.
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You can through asylum processes, champ. He was essentially granted asylum by an immigration judge who believed he was at risk of persecution back home. He was deported by mistake, and to a prison at that.
So why do you support the government's mistake when it denies due process?
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It's unfair for you to expect them to understand two-step logic.
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Piggybacking off of Heath: It's never too late for redemption, Trump supporters. All I ask is that you fervently consider the possibility that you're wrong about him to 𝘢𝘯𝘺 degree. If you have a change-of-heart, you're welcome to join the club & Resistance.
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Probably not, but he obviously didn't desire to return there, nor did the (ruling) judge believe that he should've. So the question is whether you approve of the administration's actions.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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This is either blowing smoke or ineptitude. Biden already halted oil imports years ago, and POTUS made sure to clarify every statement with an 𝘪𝘧.
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"𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨, metaphor."
- Christian Dads
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TBF, she's a self-loathing Ukrainian that 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 wants to be Kremlin. The nation she represents is not her strong suit.
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Answer: Lucy in the sky with diamonds! 🎶
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It should give everyone pause on the nature of humanity as well. I don't want to hear anybody else asking "how could Germany let Hitler do those things??"
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It would be, but they won't until it's too late.
When the dust settles, my hope is that legacy media finally undergoes the drawn-out death it deserves.
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Numbers don't sell papers, nor make good headlines. And the average voter only pays attention to politics within the last 100 days of a POTUS election. The American people are apathetic, and they don't know what the don't know.
Our messaging failed them, but they largely failed themselves.
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I'd entertained the thought before, but my problem is that it risks condemning the poor(ly educated) to remaining in place. Can we expect them to fight for their children's futures when they can't vote on issues like education and student loans? They struggle to move up the ladder as is.
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How 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 with confidence we should be that POTUS's advisors don't have a hold on his inner thoughts. It's almost as if he's an impulsive dolt.
Look at what's been created, onlookers. This is what happens when we only look on every 4 yrs, or "don't care about politics". Apathy is death.
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That's understandable: what was nearly unthinkable happened.
The question here is how we channel our thoughts: rage can be a motivator, but we 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 let it direct our actions. We need to be calculated, while Trump relies on his impulses. That's an advantage we 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 lose.
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With all due respect, sympathy & forgiveness are personal issues. I'm not asking you to do those: I'm asking you to consider that we'll need more help.
There were numerous testimonies @ the DNC--and on social media--of people who abandoned Trump after voting for him twice. More 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 leave.
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Secession is surrender. I will not abandon our vulnerable to tyranny, nor will I disregard the sacrifices of our fallen. To secede would be to tolerate the existence of the regime. I would rather die.
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www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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We need to remember that Trumpism is a cult. You might be overestimating the amount of people who are fully (or largely) informed about the consequences of another Trump term. One of my dad's news sources is his friends' FB posts... this is on top of 3-decades of Fox etched into his skull.
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You're assuming that leadership listens to and respects the opinions of their employees. When a litany of objections are ignored, can those with a conscience continue to assume they're 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 being listened to?
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Idk that morality will ever leave the equation, but it'd be nicer to have an environment where you don't feel like one party wants to reverse any rights you have. A conservative party that embraced LGBTQ+ and abortion rights would be significantly more respectable.
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That might be our only chance to understand 𝘈𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘴 on a molecular-level. Idk if/how our technology could advance far enough to extract any DNA from their remains because of their age. We might just need to extrapolate what 𝘈𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘴 was like using 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘴 as reference.
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𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘴 has caught my interest recently, especially due to its coexistence with hominins from 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘰. The idea that a human species could cross paths with another upright ape is fascinating to me. Recreating a 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘴 genome would be surreal.
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This isn't the same party of 50 years prior. It's not even the part of Reagan. The Republican Party must die, and we should encourage new conservative alternatives to rise from the ashes.
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Promoting and protecting voting rights, as well as any attempts to remove the guardrails of our democratic republic (and how to keep them up).
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Not considering the Right your enemy doesn't mean that they haven't crowned you as theirs. David knows this, and is naive to tell himself otherwise.
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Is it because he's too committed to the rule of law? We know they like playing favorites.
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Hey @harrylitman.bsky.social, is this merely an agreement, or is this a deal?
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Yeah, like, they're following 11k, but NO posts?? Come one, man.
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Older polling suggesting near-equal amount of D's and R's are skeptical of GMO's. [End]
www.pewresearch.org/internet/201...
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I genuinely don't understand how our country sleepwalked into an era of GMO and pesticide skepticism. These denials seem different (from others) in that they have wide bipartisan reach. Depressing how globe-trotted this bunk is. [1]
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
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Okay, fair enough. Any plans for future books? :)
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After a century-plus, globally organized effort to push fundamentalist Christian values onto right-wing party platforms, Christian leaders are now puzzled as to why their half-effort congregates are only supporting the doctrines they hear. It's as if most believers don't read the Bible in entirety.
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Yeah. 😅
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Believers have their own head-canons that can differ from the teachings of the church they subscribe to. Their views on God may shape their political opinions, but their political opinions may shape their view of God. [End]
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I don't know that that's true. Remember that many Christians in this country don't actually live what they believe, and the pastors and preachers (generally) aren't going to fall in that bubble themselves. The problem could predate Trump. [1]
www.rawstory.com/trump-evange...
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You'll have to clarify what you mean by "dangerous", because anything that winds up w/you incarcerated before or at the beginning of the Trump administration renders you unuseful to the pro-democracy cause.
There are also serious moral implications to consider, not just for 𝘶𝘴 but strategically.