Jesse Singal
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I make text and voice words. @fsgbooks , former @NYMag . Cohost @TheBARPod , the first-ever podcast: * jesse.r.singal @gmail .com
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Me leading my followers through the murky, dangerous swamplands of Twitter and sustaining and nurturing them with my tweets
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2009: Maybe we'll pull off universal healthcare
2017: I hope the National Park Service employee who tweeted an objective fact is okay
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Let's get this out of the way:
-They'll name Idris Elba the new 007
-500 losers on a planet of 7 billion will be like waaaahh Bond can't be black
-This will generate 1000 articles
-The movie will make money and people will enjoy it
WE CAN JUST SKIP THE MIDDLE PART PEOPLE
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If you are surprised by this verdict you should rethink your news consumption habits
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Compromise: Whoopi Goldberg and Joe Rogan swap hosting gigs for the next month
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If I was a student, and there were areas of campus I couldn't go to unless I pledged fealty to a political cause -- seriously, whatever the cause was, even "liking ice cream" -- I'd be absolutely furious, especially if administrators didn't immediately step in and ban the
Wristbands are being used to identify anti-Israel students at
@UCLA
so that they are allowed to enter Royce Quad, Royce Hall, and Powell Library.
Some students are allowed in and out, others are kept out. This is ILLEGAL and UCLA is not just tolerating it but facilitating it.
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My two year old son Resist just toddled up to me with tears in his eyes and said "Daddy, is this -- 'this' being a reference to Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter -- the end of the American experiment?"
I patted him on the said and said yes, it is. There is no hope left.
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Amazing chain of events. The kid reiterates his murderous views *during* a disciplinary meeting and posts it online. He brags to his audience about having not walked it back. Columbia (apparently) doesn't take any further action. Then, when it goes public, he's sorry, Columbia's
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There is something about the whole Edward Gallagher story, just the murder and the pardon and the Fox News bullshit and everything else, that somehow hits me more viscerally in an America-is-broken sense than a bunch of other stories that are objectively a lot more important.
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"Tell everyone... my death... was... statistically rare..." - me reassuring everyone as I bleed out after a random guy with 15 priors shanks me on the Q train on my way to see Kung Fu Panda 4 in IMAX
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I dunno man I am tempted to begrudgingly give Walsh credit here -- he literally flew to a remote African village solely to trigger the libs on Twitter
Here’s a nice video to share for
#PrideMonth
. I spoke to an African tribe about transgenderism. The Left claims that traditional cultures have fluid notions of gender. That’s… not exactly what I found.
More in the full film, What Is A Woman, premiering tonight on the Daily Wire
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I take it back Biden's their best shot
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As a Jewish person I'm concerned that wildly popular people like Robin DiAngelo are ACTIVELY ENCOURAGING whites to view themselves as a unified collective without a moment's thought as to how reviving this scientifically asinine and historically disastrous idea could backfire.
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I cannot emphasize enough how badly you need to watch this North Korean propaganda video right now.
It will forever change your understanding of film as an artistic medium.
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Vox: Slapping People, Explained
Slate: The Slap Was Interesting, But Not For The Reasons You Think
NPR: Three Twee Stories Told By Previously Slapped Americans
Breitbart: The Black-On-Black Slapping Stats The Liberal Media Won't Tell You About
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Biden, delivering a teleprompter address at the NAACP convention, is repeatedly having trouble completing sentences. This is a fucking disagrace and it has to stop. He is incapable of campaigning.
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How the FUCK does Twitter allow this video to still be up? The dude posts her license plate number. It is COMPELTELY unclear what happened. There is no context. The entire goal is to ruin this woman's life permanently over... flipping him off? 5 million views...
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It's extremely irresponsible for John Oliver to clam that puberty blockers are reversible. The NHS *deleted this claim from its website* because no one actually knows. There are all sorts of unanswered questions involving not just bone density but cognitive development
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Just as a pragmatic matter, if a guy tries to steal an election it's... straightforwardly fair to say that he is a threat to democracy! Like, definitionally. I'm against overheated rhetoric and hysteria and exaggeration but telling people they can't describe reality is silly.
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Because she is very on Twitter and has Harvard in her bio, Caraballo is seen by journalists with no subject-matter expertise as a serious voice on anti-disinformation/counterextremism stuff.
She spreads disinformation *all the time*. Like, seemingly ever new viral lefty rumor.
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The possibility of Elon Musk taking over Twitter is, in certain (arguably most) senses, America's very first 9/11
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We really, really can't normalize this. This is, and should be seen as, a very disturbing thread from a once-righteous organization.
BREAKING: Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty of the fatal shooting of two, and injury of another, during the protest over the shooting of Jacob Blake by the Kenosha Police Department.
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The number of conservatives who have been making TRIGGERED LIBS jokes for the last several years but who have been driven to their fainting couches in hysterical tears by Rude Teens is awesome
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The New Yorker, on Jon Haidt: "He has been beset by a troubling fixation on the heritability of I.Q.—a contention widely dismissed as scientific racism"
This is completely false. The heritability of intelligence is accepted by mainstream researchers. The debate is over *race*.
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CIA folks are worried if they find dirt on Putin and tell Trump, Trump will blow up their source's spot
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A young Des Moines Register reporter retweeted Osita Nwanevu's article about how cancel culture isn't real and shortly thereafter got fired for offensive tweets he did like 8 years ago
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Atlantic spokeswoman on the Chick-fil-A incident that Nikole Hannah-Jones and many others claimed must have been fabcricated: "the details were confirmed by New York Times employees who had contemporaneous knowledge of the incident in question."
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Me: KICK PUPPIES!
Everyone: That's a horrible slogan! Why would you say that?
Me: Nononononono, the point isn't to 'kick' 'puppies' -- it's far more subtle than that. Read these 10 links explaining what the phrase REALLY means. This will get you on my side, I'm sure
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We have just hit peak 2020: white woman spray painting 'BLM' on a Starbucks as a black woman asks if she can please just not.
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New from me:
Researchers Found Puberty Blockers And Hormones Didn’t Improve Trans Kids’ Mental Health At Their Clinic. Then They Published A Study Claiming The Opposite.
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Our country has so much potential and is such a fucking disgrace
Alec Raeshawn Smith, age 26, was found dead in his apartment on June 27. He was rationing his insulin after he aged out of his parent’s insurance coverage.
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I ran into Andy Ngo so I started browbeating him for his obsession with antifa. I'll never forget what he said next: "Dude, it's me, Katie. We've been working together for more than two years? I'm not Andy."
Which is exactly how Ngo would try to weasel out of accountability.
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1. Woman calls Portland parking authority (not cops) b/c a car's blocking crosswalk
2. Owners of car happen to be black (caller didn't know)
3. Journos play up nonexistent racism angle
4. Asshole geniuses of Twitter busily get to work
doxing and trying to ruin her
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White people yelling at white people on Twitter for being white
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So many things that happened not very long ago no longer feel real when you look at photos of them
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White guy stealing the mic from black people he doesn't view as woke enough nicely captures the moment
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This is one of the worst ones I've seen. It captures the extent to which violent cops can turn tense but manageable situations into complete clusterfucks. If you can't handle someone yelling at you, choose a different line of work.
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Here's how a big-name communications staffer at the Human Rights Campaign reacted to a gay journalist getting attacked by a group of masked vigilantes during a public event. There's video of a masked vigilante punching him in the head.
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The American Medical Association has just released "Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Language, Narrative and Concepts," a strange document that calls for doctors to insert progressive politics into even plain statements of fact.
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A subset of Twitter has shifted with remarkable alacrity from RIOTING IS GOOD DO NOT QUESTION THE RIOTING to IT HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION THE RIOTING WAS PERPETRATED BY EVIL OUTSIDE AGITATORS
I think in times like this less Twitter is absolutely crucial
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we must defund the CDC immediately
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You'll ask GPT-5 a question and it'll get back to you seven years later, extremely depressed, having answered a totally different question by developing a novel and incoherent theory that will be debunked when it turns out a single decimal point was misplaced in an obscure line
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My sense, having seen clips of Jon Stewart discussing White Fragility and youth gender medicine, is that he's the guy to go to if you want the circa-2020 mainstream corporate progressive take on something. I viewed him in a heroic light when I was younger so this depresses me.
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EVERYBODY who follows this debate closely knows there are serious questions about whether this is an accurate description of puberty blockers. For one of the most quoted, trusted 'experts' on this issue -- NYT, WaPo, NPR, etc. -- to say this should be a big warning sign.
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I think some activists and journalists made the mistake of thinking "Eat shit," "Fuck you," "You want to kill kids," "You enable genocide," etc. could stave off a conversation about youth gender medicine, they're realizing that effort failed, and now they're freaking out over it.
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Vox: Caves, Explained
Slate: Why Thai Authorities Should Have Left The Soccer Team In That Cave A Little Longer
Breitbart: Did ISIS Operatives Posing As Moderate Muslims Lure The Soccer Team Into The Cave?
Everyday Feminism: How Modern Cave Discourse Erases Gray Asexuality
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I immediately got blocked by Maza when I asked him about this in the replies, but this nicely sums things up: "This behavior is psychologically traumatizing, and I am in favor of it as long as the target is deemed Bad by me."
Maza is far from the only person who thinks this!
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I think if you're a white person concerned with fighting racism you should take extra care to make sure that you're actually doing that rather than joining some sort of cult with a racism-fighting facade, since the latter could seriously attenuate your racism-fighting efforts.
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Rereading Ezra Klein's column, it's amazing how prescient he was
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Only Whiteness and white people have true agency. Everyone else is their pawn, and if they don't have the right views, it's likely because Whiteness infected them. Asians might think they know what they want but they need NPR to help free them of their false consciousness.
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"I would happily blow 20 guys in an alley with bleeding dicks so I could get AIDS and then fuck a deer and kill it with my AIDS."
-Louis CK, who I am told just pivoted to offensive edgelord humor as part of a right-wing swing to save his career, in a special released in 2008
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Thirty seconds ago I didn't believe humans should take any action to stop global warming (a lib hoax anyway), but now that I have seen advocates for the cause spray aerosal particles into the atmosphere while defacing a priceless world heritage site, I have changed my mind.
🚨 BREAKING: Just Stop Oil Spray Stonehenge Orange
🔥 2 people took action the day before Summer Solstice, demanding the incoming government sign up to a legally binding treaty to phase out fossil fuels by 2030.
🧯 Help us take megalithic action —
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This makes a strong case that media outlets screwed this up. Before you react angrily, just watch the video. It's right there. Now that there's an extended video, you forfeit your right to an opinion if you don't watch the moments in dispute.
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These articles are utterly bizarre. It's like they're referring to an entirely different set of shootings than the ones we have video of. There's no attempt to make sense of those actual moments -- it's all rote recitation and archetypes.
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That's four countries, all with top-tier healthcare systems, where scientists have looked into the evidence, said the local equivalent of "Holy shit," and determined access to blockers and hormones needs to be more tightly regulated. In the States? Lots of heads in lots of sand.
The Norwegian Healthcare Investigation Board, (NHIB/UKOM) has deemed puberty blockers, cross-sex-hormones & surgery for children & young people experimental, determining that the current “gender-affirmative” guidelines are not evidence-based and must be revised. /1
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My uncle, who works for Nintendo, which is working on coronavirus stuff, has some terrifying updates I'd like to share with you without fact-checking, some of which involve the possibility of aliens from outer space
PLEASE RT without confirming
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1/ Gender dysphoria is in the DSM-5. Despite endless rumor-mongering and misinformation to the contrary, it *is* considered a mental disorder. Maybe it shouldn't be! But it's beyond insane to suspend someone for expressing an opinion which lines up with the DSM. I have less and
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Timothée Chalamet made a distasteful Hamas joke on SNL.
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This seems to confirm that a dude was able to just climb on a roof, set up a rifle, and have a clear shot at a former president/current candidate. I think even as someone who knows nothing about these matters I can safely say that's an absolutely astonishing failure on every
Here is the latest information from our investigation. We are grateful to the Secret Service team and our law enforcement partners for their swift action. Our thoughts go out to the families affected by this tragedy.
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2/ The meeting was held by the "Center for Student Success and Intervention," one of God knows how many administrative bodies. Surely it creates a lot of work for folks. Those employees decided it's no big deal if this kid is threatening to kill his classmates.
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There's been a lot of anecdotal evidence, for years, that gender clinics are fast-tracking deeply troubled kids to permanent medical procedures. Anyone raising questions is accused of wanting trans kids DEAD. This will go down as a period of medical mania
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1/ New from me in
@TheEconomist
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With this technology they could rise to 5,000 feet above the enemy before immediately surrendering
HEYO
WATCH: An armed "flying soldier" was on display in the air during the traditional Bastille Day military parade in Paris this weekend.
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This sort of discourse drives me absolutely bananas and I think it is a direct result of media being increasingly dominated by people from super-privileged backgrounds
🧵 Thread: Russia’s attack on Ukraine means there’s a stressful news cycle ahead of us. The reality of conflict is always a shock to the system.
Here are 5 ways to cope.
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Their feelings are causing them to boo a fact. This is terrible!
The CPAC crowd breaks out in boos after Van Jones says, accurately, that "undocumented immigrants right now have a lower crime rate than the rest of us."
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A 28-year-old social democratic data scientist lost his job at
@CivisAnalytics
for tweeting an article by a biracial Princeton African-American studies scholar suggesting that riopting is politically counterproductive
This is horrifying.
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This is it: The mother of all intersectional, race-first, screw-class pileups we've been waiting for. Mixed-race couple, one of them a former reality TV star, buys a $5 million house, realizes they aren't fully free to modify it due to heritage status, seek to get heritage status
“A couple in an affluent midtown Toronto neighbourhood is asking the city to remove the heritage designation from their century home because they say the original owner was racist.”
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This has now escalated, over the years, from made-up rumors that I DM trans women inappropriately, to random death threats, to a surprising number of calls for me to kill myself, to a lurid publicly posted fantasy about raping me. I think maybe it's enough?
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This is becoming my favorite subgenre of corporate-woke claim: "You did not consume the correct content and therefore have problematic beliefs."
Director Elizabeth Banks defends reboots & blames men for
#CharliesAngels
flopping with $8.6M domestically on a $50M~ budget
• 'You've had 37 Spider-Man movies'
• 'It reinforces a stereotype in Hollywood that men don’t go see women do action movies'
(via
@WSJ
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@theheraldsun
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This is exceptionally embarrassing for TED and I hope the organization apologizes to Coleman.
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How can the Post possibly justify still having this up? This is awful. Just how things are gonna be here on out, unfortunately.
President Biden appeared to wander off at the G7 summit in Italy, with officials needing to pull him back to focus.
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Watching progressives and leftists celebrate a journalist getting assaulted -- even a journalist they have major disagreements with (as I do) -- is surreal. Just completely despicable and I can't believe anyone is doing it under their real name.
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"We shall fight in the Starbucks, we shall fight in the theater companies, we shall fight in the small literary magazines and in the fast-food restaurants, we shall fight in the non-profits having nothing to do with the Middle East; we shall never surrender" - Winston Churchill
Pro-Palestine protesters entered a Starbucks in Ann Arbor, chanting “Starbucks, Starbucks, you can’t hide, not ‘til we free Palestine”
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Me: Computer, show me the dumbest person on a site absolutely overflowing with morons
Computer:
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This is an interesting artifact, especially the idea that she is communicating "very big, obvious truths that no one is saying on TV," shortly before reciting a list of talking points, many of them factually false, disseminated in every single mainstream outlet.
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What feels like a disturbingly high proportion of left-of-center intellectual energy is being spent developing not new ideas or rebuttals to ideas, but derailing tactics that ensure a wider and wider swath of ideas can't be questioned at all. It's an unhealthy epistemic landscape
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Commentator shared this DM from a pilot. Firing the pilot and the rest of the crew is a good start, but I'm worried it leaves all their families off the hook. They're complicit too; maybe for 2-3 generations they shouldn't be allowed to vote or hold office? I'm just spitballing.
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This is a pretty common conservative claim about healthcare, but I've never understood it. Don't we have a ton of rights that require someone to do something? "The right to an attorney" technically means someone has to agree to be your attorney!
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Within like a month of everyone broadcasting how desperate they were to punch Nazis, a female journalist friend of mine got punched in the head by some antifa goon. You just need to be really, really careful normalizing any sort of political violence, even something like this.
Why throwing milkshakes and eggs has become the perfect act of protest
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1/ Thread: This Vox article is really bad. It seriously overstates the evidence for the efficacy of youth medical transition while attempting to pressure science journalists -- already scared of this subject -- into not doing their jobs.
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I have a lot of problems with how Ben Collins does his job, but I thought he really crossed a line this week by opportunistically inserting words into the mouths of murder victims.
Extremely off-putting so I wrote about it.
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Between Russia and China, ~1.5 billion people live in terrifying dystopias when it comes to the government's near-total ability to control and punish disfavored speech. It shocks me Americans are so blind to the dangers of giving government and tech more power on this front.
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