Remember 2020, when all of us huddled in our homes, trying not to get covid, watched trump, sneering, tell us to take dewormer and inject bleach? We all said:
"I don't care who his opponent is. I'd vote for a houseplant to keep him out of office."
I'm literally begging y'all to keep that promise.
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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:
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High-speed trains and Public Fiber internet are the same thing. We have so many amazing the government could build to improve the world but Liberalism is a hollow philosophy while conservatism is an evil one.
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People have been diagnosing Trump with narcissistic personality disorders for awhile now too. So it's not new.
"Flavius, I think the Emperor is insane."
And my favorite....
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And!
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Typo an all. You know it's real.
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Unless they are old angry white guys who will take this as an attack on their dead parents and begin a physical altercation.
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I think Democrats actually pushing for a strong emotional belief in Democratic values weakens the Democratic Party because it doesn't live up to those values. The GOP meanwhile doesn't pretend to be something it's not.
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Girl.... #ISawtheTVGlow
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In addition to completely disregarding the human rights of the incarcerated, the Texas board of prisons has absolutely no concern for its employees either. Every year a bunch of them see for humane working conditions and get nowhere.
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They don't tell us what to order but they do say what restaurant we can go to.
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I thought they were a large group of elites who have one of only a few allowed views on US electoral politics who have the most collective power when on a relatively conservative path, who can’t exactly pick or create a winner but can certainly pave the way for failure.
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We renamed french fries to Freedom Fries cause we were angry at the French for not joining am illegal invasion.
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I've noticed a trend in the UK that if you merely laugh at a fascist without doing anything to extinguish their power, they gain more power. And everyone gets angry and shocked that it happens.
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Daydreaming about future journal articles to deal with the dread of fascism.
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Queer people get to have some sort of symbol (±?) for how long they have been self aware and generally open with their queerness.
(TF33±2)
Vs
(TF33±15)
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reskeet with a tweet you still think about
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The story suddenly changes if someone goes from
"I don't feel like my girlfriend is as ambitious as I am"
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"I(M45) don't feel like my girlfriend(F19) is as ambitious as I am"
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Hetero Cis people reviewing "I saw the TV Glow" and totally missing point after point after point is so frustrating.
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Our new paper in PeerJ: we show with basic video footage that hippos essentially only trot even at near-maximal speeds, and at those speeds they do get airborne with all four feet. Which, to our knowledge, is new to science -- and cool!
peerj.com/articles/176...
🧵: twitter.com/JohnRHutchin...
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honestly they’re kinda cooking with this
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