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@DolomiteMick

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American, Italian, love to travel. 🇺🇸🇮🇹🏳️‍🌈

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@DolomiteMick
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@Xx_Stoogie_xX @TylerAlbertario That’s a good reason to create women-only spaces in chess. And trans women deserve to be included in women-only spaces.
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@DolomiteMick
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@TylerAlbertario I can understand why a sport like baseball or soccer would have separate women’s teams, but why does chess do that? Chess is not a game of physical strength.
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@DolomiteMick
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@sheologian @baeoflight If you aren’t affected by politics, then you are very privileged.
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@DolomiteMick
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@IwriteOK One of the strategies employed in Kyiv during the Euromaidan protests was to literally hold mirrors up in front of riot cops.
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@DolomiteMick
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@abierkhatib He’s also a sexual harasser
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@DolomiteMick
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@BeijingPalmer Jeff Edwards wrote this email to a fellow activist (which was then shared) several years ago. Sums up pretty well why so many queer activists can’t stand Yasmin Nair.
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@DolomiteMick
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@MaxMaaxMaaax Back in the 90s, Microsoft ran a portal called the Microsoft Network, or MSN. In 1996, Microsoft and NBC launched a joint venture to replace the network America’s Talking, and the name of the new venture was a portmanteau of MSN and NBC - MSNBC. This was their original logo.
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@DolomiteMick
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@billvarner98 @doctor_cabral @thesixler How would he do that when he’s a resident with student loan debt and getting paid $16/hour? I make twice that and have no student loans, and I don’t have that kind of money lying around!
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@DolomiteMick
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@Rockybalbonga1 The inspiration for the song was that a year after Pat Monahan’s mother died of cancer, he had a dream where she came back to him after swimming through space and had drops of Jupiter in her hair. As he woke up from the dream, the phrase “back in the atmosphere” was in his head.
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@DolomiteMick
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@Ian_Gay_briel What the Catholic Church considers to be fish for the purposes of Lenten observance basically boils down to whether the animal lives more on land or in water. In New Orleans, local bishops have decided that alligator meat is “fish” during Lent
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@DolomiteMick
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@ArmandDoma What is up with all these PRC apologists?
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@DolomiteMick
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@_CharlesPreston Thank you for sharing this! I think it does a really good job of explaining microaggressions, which far too many people who have a lot of privilege still don’t understand.
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@DolomiteMick
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@blakeflayton Why 👏🏻is 👏🏻it 👏🏻your 👏🏻business 👏🏻what 👏🏻Palestinians 👏🏻do 👏🏻in 👏🏻Palestine? 🇵🇸
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@DolomiteMick
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@IwriteOK I’m 34 and still have had zero female sex partners, but that’s because I’m super gay 🏳️‍🌈
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@DolomiteMick
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@BeijingPalmer If they really want something to do, look for opportunities to teach at a university. Lots of institutions would chomp at the bit to have an ex-Senator on their faculty. Teach civics to the next generation of leaders.
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@DolomiteMick
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@notkavi Glibly dismissing an elderly person’s desire to age in place is cruel. The housing crisis is not a problem of old people not downsizing - it’s a problem of there being fewer housing units than there are people needing a place to live.
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@DolomiteMick
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@fallenigloos @kerryreid @clapifyoulikeme @mike10010100 And remember, she Rachel Dolezaled her queer identity! So the person accusing Giacomo of emotional blackmail and saying that gays and lesbians “want to centre themselves” is a STRAIGHT LADY! A charlatan and a homophobe!
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@DolomiteMick
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@RaxKingIsDead This is why I don’t trust apps like BetterHelp. My psychiatrist is good at what he does and has years of experience, and someone like him isn’t going to work for pennies on a texting platform.
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@DolomiteMick
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@the_minyan I’m not Jewish and even I think that’s outrageous.
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@baeoflight @sheologian It is such a slap in the face to disenfranchised people when people who are eligible can’t be bothered to vote.
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@Chanalemusic It’s not the identity of their oppressors that Palestinians have a problem with. It’s the oppression.
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@JordynTilchen If only Palestinian civilians had the power to do that.
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@yudapearl That’s not what the Palestinian flag stands for, but you’re free to misinterpret it that way 🇵🇸
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@Starkeaw @doctor_cabral @billvarner98 @thesixler I make 70 and I’m not in a position to pay thousands of dollars toward someone’s medical bills. Also, it would be unethical for a provider to get involved in a patient’s finances like that.
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@AdDelayed @JFreemanAT @TheThirdPath_ Lefties have always existed, but in the 20th century we finally learned to stop “correcting” left-handed people. Kind of like how queer people have always existed, but nowadays more of us are counted because we don’t have to live in the closet anymore.
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@benwritesthings @jpbrammer Are you talking about Yasmin Nair, the homophobic NAMBLA-defending hack who Rachel Dolezaled her way into the queer community?
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@JBinks99 @WonderKing82 @AKD329 I think that’s just a Trump thing.
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@ArmandDoma Obesity is a public health issue, but it’s caused a lot more by things like our built environment and how food is regulated and marketed than by millions of people coincidentally making bad individual choices. Penalizing people for not being in peak health is gross.
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@r_w2023 Refresh my memory…isn’t Brian Kemp, the Governor of Georgia, a Republican? Isn’t Georgia’s state legislature controlled by Republicans? What exactly do you expect President Biden to do, keeping in mind that even if he did try to act, SCOTUS has a 6-3 conservative majority?
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@bea_johanssen @antisemitism @AmnestyUK @metpoliceuk Where does the ad express support for Hamas? In fact, where does the ad even **mention** Hamas?
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@DolomiteMick
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@Ian_Gay_briel My diabetes medications were on backorder at CVS, and it was an absolute nightmare getting Aetna to pay for a 60 day supply at a different pharmacy so I’d have enough for my trip 🤬
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@Ostrov_A You spelled apartheid wrong.
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@DolomiteMick
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@Cerberus0fHades @TylerAlbertario Ah so it’s more of a way of encouraging women to compete who might otherwise find themselves pushed out by sexist men. Makes sense. Btw the only person I was never able to beat at chess happened to be a woman!
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@metltek @TylerAlbertario Well that’s very wrong.
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@DolomiteMick
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@mattlieb Former IDF officer Hen Mazzig is pretty shameless about using the fact that he’s gay to pinkwash Israel’s war crimes. But did you know that he’s also a serial sexual harasser?
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@clapifyoulikeme This is the same person who years earlier called gay couples “selfish” (actual quote) for demanding the right to get married. A deeply unpleasant person.
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@humansrocked @RyanMarino My understanding, and @RyanMarino is welcome to fact-check me if I have this wrong, is that they think touching it is dangerous and then they have a panic attack.
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@OmegaLiquidX @TylerAlbertario I was actually getting more at why women would compete separately in chess in the first place ( @Cerberus0fHades made a really good point in his reply), but yes, that’s very true. Transphobia and homophobia can trace their roots to misogyny.
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@DolomiteMick
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@amydiehl I’m 34 and childless. Am I a bad role model too?
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@cmikehawke @Xx_Stoogie_xX @TylerAlbertario Yes but that takes time. In the meantime, women-only spaces can make chess more accessible for women.
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@DolomiteMick
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@Ian_Gay_briel Former Presidents are ex-officio superdelegates.
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@DolomiteMick
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@yhdistyminen This isn’t the dunk people think it is. Names like Greenstein and Mileikowsky were imposed on Jews in the Holy Roman Empire and the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Critiquing Zionist politics is perfectly valid, but attacking Jews over their identity is antisemitic.
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@Chanalemusic Israelis choosing life and peace in Huwara
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@DolomiteMick
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@notkavi Instead of harassing seniors, something that really would alleviate the problem would be to build more housing. Not enough land for that? Build denser housing. And build out public transportation so people don’t have to drive their damn cars everywhere!
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@DolomiteMick
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@robrousseau He’s being performatively pro-Israel in order to gaslight people who rightly accuse him of antisemitism
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@DolomiteMick
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@StandWithUs As an Italian, I hope that the death of my fellow countryman does not get used as a pretext to indiscriminately destroy homes in Gaza, which is usually what happens whenever someone gets killed in Israel.
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@QueenMab87 You should see the article Yasmin Nair wrote back in 2005 where she defended NAMBLA and questioned the wisdom of age-of-consent laws.
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@DolomiteMick
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@byJoshuaDavis Forgiving design for high-speed drivers is a good idea - on limited-access highways that are meant for high speed and designed to exclude non-automobile traffic. In residential neighborhoods, tree canopies and narrow roads calm traffic and promote slow and safe driving.
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@IwriteOK @merrittk Apparently the reason Rugrats had Jewish holiday specials is because Arlene Klasky felt that Jewish culture was underrepresented in American media. I think it’s awesome how she used her platform to embed Jewish traditions into American pop culture!
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@DolomiteMick
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@christodeklerk @krishnanrohit @AndreeaBoyce While most of Craigslist is free, they make money by charging employers to post job ads.
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@DolomiteMick
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@Le_Sad_Demiurge @XiranJayZhao Judaism is an ethnoreligion - it’s a tribe, in addition to being a set of beliefs. A fuller explanation of this is another conversation for another time, but Leigh is probably applying this concept to Islam, which unlike Judaism isn’t an ethnoreligion.
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@finnatcon Or you could just respect people’s religious customs instead of belittling them. Keeping kosher (or not) isn’t going to impact a war being fought in a foreign country thousands of miles away.
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@DolomiteMick
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@GoodVibePolitik Do you seriously think Trump will restore it?
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@ArmandDoma I have a better idea. Offer the same protections that we already give to people with bank accounts and credit cards where people with food stamps are not liable for fraudulent use of their EBT cards and can have stolen balances restored.
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@DolomiteMick
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@jerryiannelli It’s not about Biden’s feelings, it’s about the long-term consequences of Donald Trump getting back into office.
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@DolomiteMick
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@NicsuPR Without Black artists like Little Richard and Big Mama Thornton, there would be no rock and roll.
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@DolomiteMick
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@Ostrov_A @SpeakerMcCarthy @RashidaTlaib @BernieSanders Sanders is Jewish. Anti-Zionism ≠ antisemitism
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@DolomiteMick
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@Bad_bureaucrat Maybe don’t go after Hillel. Hillel isn’t the Israeli consulate and removing it just removes a safe space for Jewish students.
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@DolomiteMick
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@notkavi You’re being disingenuous, so you can figure the answer out for yourself.
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@GoodVibePolitik The article about American journalists being arrested is from 2020, when Trump was still President, so that tracks. Even then, they still got more due process than Evan Gershkovich can ever expect from Russian courts
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@BabaSubeaux The late night queer parties in Ramallah sound like so much fun!
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@kadish_josh Don’t use us as props. — The gays
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@QueenMab87 Very cruel, and also it doesn’t even solve the housing shortage if carried out. The solution is to build more housing until there’s a surplus, which means 1) there’s enough housing for everyone needing a home, and 2) seniors can age in place in peace.
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@DolomiteMick
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@TaulbyE324 Think of the opportunity cost - all the resources that could have been invested in conventional high-speed rail instead
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@ranghad_ @InternetH0F Germany requires 4 years and has fewer than 50 deaths per year in police custody.
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@DolomiteMick
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@ava_marie_v @RachelFinston As a neurodivergent person myself I hadn’t even thought of that. But you make a very insightful point. Not 100% sure if I agree that it should be dropped entirely, but if it’s taught then there needs to be much better context and discussion of how Lenny’s portrayal is ableist.
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@QueenMab87 If you have friends or family living in the area that was attacked, I hope they are okay. I really mean that.
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@JuicyFr64563806 @BeijingPalmer Yeah, I kind of wonder in what way she’s actually queer. After all, a straight lady lobbing her rhetoric would have been called out as a homophobe and made into a pariah a long time ago. She co-founded an organization called Against Equality.
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@SamuelRGalloway She Rachel Dolezaled her way into our community and appropriated queer identity for herself so as to shield herself when called out for homophobia. (Jeff Edwards wrote this email some years ago to Doug Ireland, which then circulated and later appeared on Yasmin Nair’s own blog!)
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@DolomiteMick
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@CooperDoyle1 I don’t even understand what the controversy is. Why are people mad at Malala?
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@almaforarizona Yes, a reminder that women can also be racist war criminals! #Feminism
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@RegimeCPA The question being asked was ambiguous and should have been clearer.
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@ArmandDoma So if someone poses a safety risk to their community, they should just be remanded into custody without bail, instead of having their bail set really high and people assuming they won’t be able to pay it.
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@mishtal Yeah I don’t think it’s the identity of their oppressors that Palestinians have a problem with, it’s the oppression.
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@fuckyouiquit Well yes, a job is something where one performs labor in exchange for recompense. Knowing how much recompense in advance allows me to save both my time and the interviewer’s time by avoiding applying for jobs that don’t pay enough.
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@hype_eth @elisabethepps If I owned a restaurant and I found out the guy who stole a sandwich from me was homeless and diabetic and thought he was about to go into a coma, I’d want the prosecutors to drop the charges.
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@DolomiteMick
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@CharlieBaranski The problem with microtargeting in politics is that it lets politicians talk out of both sides of their mouth and really fly under the radar.
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@IwriteOK Are we sure it’s really silphium?
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@karlhjort_ It’s very normal and one of the things I love about being gay 🏳️‍🌈
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@Niall_Diarmuid Gennady Zyuganov is one of the leaders of the systemic opposition, which isn’t really opposed to the regime. Navalny hasn’t been on the ballot because Putin found ways to deny access to him and his supporters.
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@Jackiew80333500 @SkyNews I would imagine that on the heels of a vicious attack on Jewish civilians and the overt antisemitism that it has incited, there would be safety concerns. Maybe it’s a precaution. I’m detecting a dismissiveness that suggests your tweet wasn’t a good-faith request for information
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@Jakeyin612 @DANsplained0 @andrewrhol Heterosexual couples with fertility issues sometimes also turn to surrogacy. What makes me uncomfortable is when rich people use surrogates for reasons other than necessity.
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@AIPAC Rashida Tlaib has shown a very nuanced understanding of things like the illegal settlements issue, and more grace than I would have shown. You’ll accuse her of antisemitism no matter what she does, solely because she’s Palestinian American. Would you give it a rest already?
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@Jimbosaur @Lexaphus Why was the ADL trying to get it pulled in the first place? Whose interest did that serve? I’m genuinely mystified by this.
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@YishaiFleisher I’m American and I do not stand with Israel. I will continue to call for the dismantling of Israeli #apartheid until Palestine is free from the river to the sea 🇵🇸
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@ekoljuba Russia is a literal empire.
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@DaSkrubKing It’s really embarrassing when a social media influencer builds more housing for people who need it than a city that’s experiencing a dire housing shortage.
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@leekern13 You fundamentally misunderstand the meaning of the word “intifada”. It literally means “tremor”. As in a tremor or shudder meant to throw off a yoke, a yoke of oppression. It is not about bullying others into submission.
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@FunTimesWithMe @steinkobbe Eichmann got a trial, dumbass!
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@Facts0601 Part of why the Republicans keep coming out ahead and fucking us over is because of all this infighting. We need to work together, and compromise where necessary (not with fascists). Purity tests play right into the GOP’s hands.
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@lilbuddymax That third note ignores over 65 laws that treat non-Jewish citizens of Israel differently. Israel’s Palestinian citizens do not have equal rights in Israeli society.
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@Umkomanisi @metltek @TylerAlbertario What do running times have to do with intellect?
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@MotiAnkari @muhammadshehad2 Funny how when Ukrainians resist Russian occupation they’re freedom fighters, but when Palestinians resist Israeli colonization they’re terrorists. Seems like a double standard to me. It’s almost as if there’s a melanin limit that determines whether resistance is acceptable 🤔
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@HousingSpock Community gardens are good because they give gardeners a nice space for their hobby. They’re not a substitute for industrial agriculture.
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@IwriteOK I feel like this will set a really bad precedent, even if he used it for good in this specific case
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@PekkaHellman I don’t think you want to be expressing nostalgia for that time Finland was aligned with Hitler.
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@emilykschrader It’s called iftar. It’s when Muslims break their fast after sunset during Ramadan. It’s currently Ramadan. The #Hasbara has sunk to a new low by dishonestly portraying iftar as a celebration of a terrorist attack. Stop lying about Palestinians! 🇵🇸
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@eclecticbrotha That’s not really pro-Palestine. It’s just straight up antisemitism.
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