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Celiactivist. Butterfly (and other) writer, editor, and writer's assistant for hire. English, Spanish, French. Knitter. Feral cat whisperer. Book reviewer and seller. Anti-censorship. Also on Blogspot, Quora, Live Journal. Followed Scalzi here.
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If you're rich you have social media consultants to pre-schedule tweets for your approval. Scan a batch, approve, get tweets posted every few minutes all week.
(I can do it. About 50% ads for client's business, 40% encouragement to prospects, 10% fluff.)
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As in "Out of the Silent Planet," as in "Earthsong," and other classic sf...
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This is why I have too many tabs open & often fail to thank people who shared things. Anyway, the links ARE NOT taking anything away from the social site that it was going to get. I'm not going to buy anything advertised so it's silly to bother about this--but links don't prevent me seeing ads.
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Or: When publishers want something by, for, & about a specific group, it makes sense to ask that writers from that group participate. For a general audience? I'd rather write as well as White men do than whine that they're getting all the breaks.
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But let's, by all means, talk openly about the drugs involved in homicide-suicides. Many are legal with a prescription. They're prescribed readily, often to people who resell them on the street. Then patients are not monitored to get them off the drugs if they "discover new, repressed memories."
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But let's, by all means, talk openly about the drugs involved in homicide-suicides. Many are legal with a prescription. They're prescribed readily, often to people who resell them on the street. Then patients are not monitored to get them off the drugs if they "discover new, repressed memories."
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So, should Ds-who-are-proud-to-be-Ds shoot at each other so they can impress the electorate as being Real Men? (Though Gabbard's a woman, hmm, well gender stereotypes are always brittle...) I hope not. A little manly handshaking and support might make a better impression.
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Can Milei protect the free market rights of people who want to make things better, as unenlightened capitalist systems have failed to do? Who knows. The key is not bigger government, though; it's not restricting people's opportunities to improve society.
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And many more examples. The great thing about private vs public is that if private things don't work well, anyone can replace them. This does presuppose an entrepreneurial mindset. The US used to be famous for entrepreneurship; I think, hope, we can privatize many things.
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I like privatization. I had much better transportation when my town had private taxis than I do when the call bus service is extended to the public but is not designed to serve the public well. I enjoyed a library of books donated by neighbors more than one that buys books approved by committee.
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If your home is attacked, and you've "secured" your gun so that you can't use it to protect your children, you feel like an accessory to whatever was done to them. Most of us are never in that situation; most of us never get a payout on an insurance policy, either.
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Well, you're currently engaging a lifelong Independent. I don't echo. Otoh I'm not primarily interested in party politics.
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There may be some toxic R echo chambers, but I know of no D echo chamber that matches 2 all-political-jokes-are-R sites I follow for background music. Like 5% political jokes, 95% pets, grandchildren, art, music, personal news, charitable causes, etc. Ds can always try!
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I thought zines or e-zines were online only, and printed ones were mags?