Jack Rocks
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American committed to equality, liberty, and justice. Former student of Russian language, literature, and 20th century European conflict. Grinnell College alum.
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@vilyessechler
@MrAndyNgo
It's called the "fight or flight" response.
If you don't already have stronger "fight" instinct or can't obtain it through training, then you absolutely can't be a police office on the streets.
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@TheLouPerez
@ajplus
Japanese should express gratitude that the US didn't nuke Tokyo, which would've been an entirely appropriate action against an aggressor that viciously attacked US territory to start the war.
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@metaverseavi
@benedictevans
Almost half of their reserves are based on the value of their native token. So if that thing collapses, it's over.
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@CofSnz
@JoeyMannarinoUS
2 Boeing 737 Max crashed when Boeing decided to fire engineers from sr leadership and let the finance and MBA bros take over.
737 Max is a hacked tougether plane that an engineering-first culture would never have allowed to reach production.
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@whstancil
When a subjective evaluation of which side is "less evil" becomes your primary approach to discernning the truth re any point of contention or disagreement, you've entered Mao territory.
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@feelsdesperate
North-midwestern progressives are among the most radicalized and detached from reality.
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@Twitagra_DM
@EndWokeness
In South America, bright colors do not carry sexual connotations. There's nothing sexual or inappropriate about this circus troupe.
But in the US, bright colors are associated with gay and queer culture, so sheltered Americans are freaking out.
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@MarvinYNWA
@DailyLoud
Hope his adoptive parents aren't still alive... hard to imagine adopting and raising a kid, involving 1000s of hours of parenting incl. rides to and from practice, other support to enable his football career.
And it ends with being called racists.
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@csommerville1
@cenkuygur
Only the most privileged on the planet believe that trans people in the US lack rights.
You've never seen real oppression in your life, and are too comfortable in your latte-sipping high tech bubble to ever experience it in remote parts of the world.
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@rohmerfan1127
Iran murdered the leftists after the revolution. Any Persian can explain this to you. Do better.
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@rohmerfan1127
You have no idea what you're talking about- you've never been immersed in Islamic civilization and as in the Islamic Republic, the leftists will be eliminated when no longer useful.
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@scottswigart
@SingleSexSpaces
@eyeslasho
In other words, you're trying to mansplain that physical experience defines womanhood.
So predictable 😂
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@NoNotHappyDays
@nikoeconn
@WallStreetSilv
Some forward-looking companies, like Netflix, allow employees to expense drinks but if found by the audit team to not benefit the company, would result in termination.
Example: buying drinks for ex-employees.
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@LegoRacers2
@EVROPEAN1488
There is nothing rigorous about your various hot takes. At no point did the invading Islamic civilization represent the just and rightful occupiers of any part of western Europe.
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@3rdGrace
@Twitagra_DM
@EndWokeness
Bozo the Clown has an outlandish costume and US circus performers wear costumes that look strange to foreigners. You're applying an American lens to another culture.
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@seanamulcahy
@SRSB51
@RoseFashion191
@LouiseWluddite
@radical_animal
@MoiraDeeming
Sean, if trans women were women, there wouldn't be the "trans" designation as a prefix.
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@JoeyMannarinoUS
@CofSnz
If every employee was a non-DEI here, flights would still face delays, gate shortages, and other problems leading to delays, incl. heavy snow and other bad weather.
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@RichardHanania
Imagine how black student performance would improve if those kids no longer believed that mid outcomes guarantee access to top colleges.
Of course, administrators will find a way to circumvent the AA ruling.
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@emanabdelhadi
@pagalpanchi
If white people were so *fearful*, white folks wouldn't grant minorities, like you, some of the most broad civl liberties and freedoms in the world.
Now compare that to how Arabs express fear.
Perhaps the racism underlying your hot take is flawed?
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@rohmerfan1127
Hamas is only leftist sympathetic when it feels a hint of guilt after torturing and beheading them.
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@rcp123456
@emanabdelhadi
No one spread more death, destruction, and oppression than Mohammad's jihad. But keep trying.
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@katewillett
Leftists in the M.E. love... Israel. And yes, the reasons are too complex for most privileged leftists in the west to comprehend.
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@IAmLeoGlaze
@ericjunior
@Phil_Lewis_
Living in a state of never-ending victimization is one of the most commonly diagnosed issues when patients start seeing a psychologist.
You can't progress until you set yourself free from the belief that you're held back by others and not in control of your own fate.
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@Katie300
@ZephyrNCC1701
@AtheistSpinster
@horrible_helga
It's unfortunate that a specific racial group, Asians, live in fear of assault and have to endure ongoing, daily violence in coastal cities.
You completely ignore their pain and suffering while promoting more trendy ideas that red states are "unsafe"
𝟳𝟬-𝗬/𝗢 𝗠𝗿𝘀. 𝗥𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗻 & 𝗸𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝟰 𝗷𝘂𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗮𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼.
Warning: I’ve seen many attacks but this incident is next-level heinous.
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#stopaapihate
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@ArmandDoma
Inside Israel proper, Arabs realize civil liberties and rights that aren't available to them anywhere else in the M.E. West Bank is a different situation.
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@Dienne_7
@gardenstategrl
@moxeecat
You don't care about genocide. China can wipe out an entire people and its culture and you say nothing.
You only care about your emotional stability and feelings when ugly images drop into your social media feed.
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@JoeMcGoogle
@wavelinejosh
@GenZ_Moderate
@YardenAleph
@Eyalo365
LOL no the Levant is filled with failed states because Islamism and Sharia Law are not compatible with liberty, human rights, and democracy. That's entirely based on the reality of the present, not what occurred in the past.
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@BrandonCelestin
@DavidSacks
Violent history of discrimination isn't ongoing in the USA of 2022. American companies have uniformly embraced DEI which is literally the opposite of violent discrimination.
Trying to conflate the past with the present is very disingenuous argument right out of 1984.
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@ArmandDoma
@N0ghl
@whstancil
@posting_forever
I was horrified when the war in Iraq started but invading and occupying a strategic nation can be in a nation's geopolitical interest. Many empires were built on wars of invasion.
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@debracleaver
@SMartMe21
How about trying to win those red states instead of following the strategy of abandoning working class and rural voters for the easier suburbs?
It's not the fault of voters that the Dems don't even try to compete in so many parts of the country.
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@DirdVanOtter
@UAWeapons
Taking out an APC with a bunch of cheap grenades is one of the most cost effective ways you can conduct a war.
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@nitschke_brett
@_psharp
@59tobyIG
@SBkcrn
That's a juvenile comparison. Stripe only cut 14% of their workforce and hadn't just decapitated the company's senior leadership.
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@erolnodiff
@eyeslasho
When my brother MD was in med school 15 yrs ago, he once explained surgeons were the guys most likely to work on cars- the docs who appreciate the physicality of that speciality.
It would be unfortunate if that trait were socially engineered away on "justice" grounds.
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@ijbailey
@CathyYoung63
In this case, "woke" is expressed as a demand that an objective view of the world be interpreted trough the lens of oppression, and the presentation of facts be restructured to fit that narrative.
Think of school districts that have tried to cancel standardized math testing.
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@cameroncowan
@Noahpinion
Too many educated with degrees that don't translate to the income potential expected by graduates.
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@FunnyvideosMor1
@FaatiTheStreet
@Kriukesbatu
You folks are so disingenuous. There has been starvation around the globe for decades and you never cared. It's all performance.
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@ArmandDoma
@AmyVulpecula374
@RightWingCope
She's like the guy in Shenzhen who's read a lot about America and Europe in internet cafes and has appointed himself the expert on European culture and history.
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@CentristStacy
@kittypurrzog
Can any psychologically healthy person imagine immigrating (or as the child of an immigrant) to a foreign country only to constantly express open contempt and borderline hatred toward the majority group and its culture?
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@Glasshomes12
@MsMcGillecuddy
@MrAndyNgo
Dude, she's a police officer and supposed to be involved in the arresting part, not watching from a safe distance away.
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@ErinConrad2
@emmanuelfelton
Yes, it's always a crime when the journalist highly paid to screech about racism is mistreated by the minimum wage peasants at a hotel.
Management should remind them of their place.
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@ArmandDoma
Not all their demands and, more importantly, there's no change in Hamas' authoritarian rule over Gaza.
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@joeyhiles1
@drumm_colin
Implicit in his critique is the assumption that books spread ideas that are worse than ideas disseminated by and through contemporary society.
Thoreau said books are the "treasured wealth of the world" because they hold not only bad ideas but timeless truths.
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@Ian_Parsley
@NeSuivezPasSVP
As a kid, I was in the USSR when McDonalds commercials first aired (first from the west to air on state tv).
It had nothing to do with "taste" but the availability of fresh ingredients, something unimaginable to ppl living in the Soviet capital.
You can't begin to imagine.
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@0xemon
@jacobhelberg
@PalantirTech
@nytimes
How did the Germans working at Ford feel when WWII started?
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@PaulSorrentino3
@gmklar
So what do you know- how much time have you spent in the Middle East? Do you think moderate Arabs doubt the sadistic methods of extreme Islam?
Next up, ISIS isn't really so bad.
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@pasta_nachos
@Itsjoeco
@yfreemark
Public spaces do not belong to drug users and the homeless. Every developed, civilized nation in the world bases its policy on that premise except for delusional leftists in the US.
You don't find homeless in the subways of Mexico City or Stockholm.
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@levantinewitch
@TheSportProhet
Syria's violence wasn't created by America, it was a result of Islamist degenerates and losers you keep crying for.
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@MarcusHWeber
@Khelsilem
Natives are expected to commune with nature and exhibit other signs of the spiritual purity that emerge from white opppression.
White leftists are racially deranged.
A few years back I taught the horror film Blood Quantum. It’s a brilliant film about a zombie apocalypse on a reservation and it’s written and produced by, and stars, native people. All my students HATED it. When I asked why, one student raised her hand after a long silence 1/
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@NelsonSwagdela
@bocxtop
@whstancil
Bro you can get on a plane and visit the M.E.
No one is forcing you to understand completely remote parts of the world by watching videos on social media.
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@Suzyw27936136
@Katie300
@ZephyrNCC1701
@AtheistSpinster
@horrible_helga
It's not a contest because in one case it's reality, in the other fantasy.
Asians live in fear of leaving their homes, of being violently assaulted at any time.
No other group of Americans is expected to live this way.
Little Saigon in Oakland is under attack DAILY.
Now dozens of mostly refugee-owned business owners say they want the city to stop ignoring the robberies, arsons, break-ins & attacks.
“When did my life become so undervalued?” says Lele Quach.
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#StopAAPIHate
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@lasfarishtas
@BinhamidAli
What kind of family are you from? Was there an adult present?
I've never met an Arab or Muslim who would agree that it's acceptable to insult your host after accepting an invitation to enter their home.
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@whstancil
Yet there was an actual black pilot who failed to pass training at numerous airlines before his employment led to a fatal crash in 2019.
Is it the fault of the pilot or a system that lets a clearly unqualified person fly an aircraft?
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@Cricketleg6
@OTerrifying
It's an invasive species. And if you were lying in the water, it would attack and kill a human as well.
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@JoyceCarolOates
It's starting to resemble the Soviet playbook- giving low level "enlightened" apparatchiks the power to rewrite literature and decide what's appropriate for the commoners to read.
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@StanleyRoberts
@solon_thinker
@PIER39
@Twitter
@SFPort
@sfgov
Apparently we need to vote out the city council and give SFPort control over the entire city.
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@PoliticalGees
@Footballbat3
@Dr_Jones__
@kim_amerie
This family doesn't want to hear political opinions while they're grieving. A little consideration goes a long way.
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@TheRealJosiahD
@ArmandDoma
In Yemen, the primary conflict involves Sunni vs Shia, the same conflict that's caused a million+ M.E. deaths over the past decade. Israel is a side show.
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@firasd
@RayFromNYCity
@RichardHanania
That's a uniquely hare-brained concept to impose on the world. It's completely unworkable and would embroil a significant % of nations in never-ending conflict over blood and soil nationalist claims.
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@whstancil
Poor Will is expressing his typical in-group contempt/ out-group affinity.
Western societies are by far the most tolerant in the world. But immigrants from *some* parts of the world do not believe the western concept of women's rights- that's a fact, not a "subhuman" quality.
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@bendreyfuss
I"m not a historian but my general understanding is that blowing up bad guys worked in a couple previous wars.
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@MollySm62661288
@whstancil
Obama and other presidents went hard on Israel to end the settlement expansion. But the right-wingers just blew off the US.
People keep overestimating the US as a nation that can and should try to control events in remote parts of the world.
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@whstancil
@cowabungatime
Will your inability to embrace irony and humor is peak tedium.
Of course all Democrats should acknowledge RGB's accountability for the obvious reason that it might discourage other justices from making a similar mistake.
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@tperodactyl
@arceeclaire
@DoubleBarrel88
@FINALLEVEL
If you were bitchin' when the FBI announced an investigation of Hillary right before the election, I'd find this more credible.
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@TheRealJosiahD
@ArmandDoma
LOL how many times have you travelled to the M.E.? I really doubt you're capable of describing the contours of the primary conflict affecting the region but it's folks like you that always express the most confidence in their hot takes.
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@LizMYS_
@emanabdelhadi
There's something called racial essentialism that pits ethic groups against one another via racist concepts in the name of progress such as cancelling advance math classes and discriminating against Asians and Jews.
But look y'all at Liz, she's one of the good whites!
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@APompliano
@mattyglesias
@SievaKozinsky
@DavidSacks
For some reason, it appears that social media hot takes aren't about to make economists obsolete.
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@mattyglesias
Most UAW members fall asleep at night staring at a map of the Middle East and worrying about a remote war that involves none of their friends or family.
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@bryancsk
@jimothy63
@constans
@katewillett
Exactly right- reality is that SF as global tech epicenter became one of the wealthiest cities in world history (on a per sq mile basis)- up there with Constantinople. Yet you don't see great public works, architecture, or other signs of great prosperity.
Such a tragedy.
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@nitschke_brett
@_psharp
@59tobyIG
@SBkcrn
Well, curt-esy is an amusing play on words. I'll concede that.
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@Geekerella
@SikhFeminist
LOL India is celebrating the defeat of Hamas.
Only failure of Britain was to establish enough institutional rigor.
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@Jbanklestankle1
@DavidSacks
You're the kind of humanitarian who would've cheered from the sidelines of the Holodomor, blaming the west for unfair interference that forced Stalin's hand.
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@wastelndwalker
@ArmandDoma
The cause would be more just if their favorite political groups didn't support the elimination of Israel and the genocide of all Jews- a platform backed by extensive war preparations, military tunnel building, and an eventual attack targeting citizens.
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@alexlikesmice
@wil_da_beast630
@wesyang
That's some Kentuckian speak acrobatics tbh. Prison housing and seperation is predicated on biological sex. To say those issues are unrelated is absurd.
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@lopez4schools
@richmondkid92
@paul_arnold
In Mexico, Gabriela, test scores are *never* sacrificed in the name of inclusivity or equity. Kids in my family in GDL speak 2-4 languages fluently and do *not* want to be treated like academic charity cases.
Perhaps you should drop the Mexican flag from your profile?
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@neontaster
@oneunderscore__
@maxwelltani
@jessesingal
Ben is angry that Tavistock was shut down before he had an opportunity to volunteer and pass out puberty blockers to 5th graders.
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@Carolne01607955
@Erik08624065
@FrankDeScushin
Schools in 2023 put black students at the front of the admissions line. It's just amusing that folks still need to believe there's wide open racism at a graduation ceremony.
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@upperweirdside
@jessesingal
Speaking over the voices and identities of murder victims is never acceptable but how impressive that you're finding a way to validate it.
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@scottswigart
@SingleSexSpaces
@eyeslasho
A few trans women manage to adopt the appearance of women, so Scott has arrived to tell all women there are new rules.
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@itsplumbcrazy
@Noahpinion
My Celtic ancestors had "indigenous knowledge" but I'm not offended by anyone who demands it meet rigorous standards.
Any knowledge, including pagan magic (don't let your western biases castigate its authenticity!) can adhere to the principles of the scientific method.
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@BAlbertBen
@CathyYoung63
What do you think happens when a black victim calls the police in an inner city?
Bad things that should be avoided?
Level of delusion among some whites is off the charts.
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@stevemur
@egglady295
@BostonGlobe
Asian culture, esp. Chinese, is to focus education on the top performers and reward excellence.
American leftists want to achieve equity, pulling down high performers with an emphasis on trying to help those with low potential.
Not hard to predict who will win.
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@wil_da_beast630
New usage of the term renders it practically meaningless and that's unfortunate because it's a very important and socially powerful designation.
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@Chrispg1216
@KennedyB420
@oneunderscore__
@DouthatNYT
If you believe that Europeans in western, liberal democracies are the *real* basis of intolerance, racism in the world, you're completely lost. Compared to EU intolerance of minorities, most Muslims are more intolerant of western culture and liberal values.
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@EmmanuelAcho
@djcsharp_dmv
This is kind of thinking that's permeated the sectarian Middle East. Everyone belongs to an ancient tribe that has grievances against the others. Injustices that occurred 100+ years ago aren't part of a dark yet closed chapter, but continue to harm those alive today.
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@RaeSM3
@migold
@EmilyYahr
Chapman was a massive breakthrough success at the end of the 80's, introducing folk music to new generations. Her legacy paved the way for Jack Johnson and many others who followed.
White Karen can't help herself and must portray every black person as a victim.
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@tekkenqq8
@BlakPantherBabe
And yet you celebrate when stories of the Mongols and Ottomans invading and murdering are told. You need help.
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@thomaschattwill
When the media started to broadcast a contorted reality where black folks face the brunt of interracial violence (often targeted by wyts), it was only a matter of time before the blowback began.
Society has to step back from racializing violence and allowing tropes to dominate.
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@Bhindenemylinez
@keira_connolly1
@JeffYoungerShow
Fortunately US immigrants are nearly all Christian except for a small number of others that sneak in.
Europe should be allowing immigration from So. America instead of the M.E.
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@KennedyB420
@oneunderscore__
@DouthatNYT
Expand your bluntness to how society will have to adapt with more Muslim voters who oppose abortion rights, gay marriage, and homosexuality by 75% + rates.
All these values are up for negotiation because some countries are too white?
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@Luk4Den
@conduit118
@JuicyJuuce
@wanyeburkett
@DecliningUS
Is that how you think of your freedom of movement- freedom to roam the world by ocean vessel?
The kind of contortions some go through to catastrophize borders.
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@ArmandDoma
I wandered into CHAZ back in its glory days (daytime only) and you could easily distinguish the clueless white suburban kids living out a utopian fantasy vs. the other strata there to exercise power, to hustle, or to prey upon the weak.
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@thornbill9
@ArmandDoma
@CaralhoPhilly
China has engaged in mass genocide of 1 million Uyghurs. Not clear what kind of degeneracy leads anyone to find China's government an acceptable owner of a social media network in the US.
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