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Not as if we haven’t had a similar dynamic before in American history, it worked out great!
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The problem is “race has some biological reality” ie something like skin color (which gets complicated for line drawing immediately) very rapidly becomes “and that’s why black people can’t be scientists”
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How much more powerful is the private prison industry going to become?
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large swaths of american elites — and not just conservatives — experienced 2020 as a crisis of social reproduction. they will do whatever it takes to make sure keyleigh and dylan never post an instagram black square ever again
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Tim may I introduce you to the IOC
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What actually unites us is a bone-deep, unshakable fear of somebody somewhere violently taking our stuff
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The president can be king unless it hurts my brokerage account
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BTW the historical basis for the "unitary executive theory" that the Supreme Court embraced today is total bunk, just an egregious, bad-faith misreading of history. It's pure bullshit. A court with integrity would acknowledge its mistake instead of doubling down. ndlawreview.org/interring-th...
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“we don’t hate them we just think they don’t belong here” is standard issue
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to put this another way, it is not news that the president is a racist. it very much IS news that his information diet as president appears to consist of the stuff that made dylann roof horny
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One of my very first editors once told me “if you were bored writing it, how do you think I’ll feel reading it?” Same principle!
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putting on balaklvas to pull kids out of cars and then crying to daddy trump because they got jostled by a member of congress. soft.
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Republican-Americans are just built different
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Playoff Dave wow