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SF native. Army vet with 2 tours. Building @fiskkit to elevate our discourse.

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@JohnGPettus
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I am an institutionalist, so I have not favored Supreme Court reform / expansion. Until now. This Supreme Court is WILDLY illegitimate, and political. Ending the rule of law, ending female bodily autonomy, ending the capacity to have a modern functioning government. Too far.
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@theRealKiyosaki Oh man. I enjoyed your book, when I was really young. But now I've learned that your values are gross and immoral. Lost all the respect I had for you. People who only care about being rich are bad people.
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@LG_RoyalsBlue @davidjoachim @mwoody68 @Lakimies100 @BobVanVoris Well... according to this court, it can’t. Aaaaand we’ve come full circle.
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Finnish snipers UNLOCKED
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BREAKING: #Finland is officially in NATO Glorious achievement for a great #EU leader, @MarinSanna 🙏🇪🇺🇫🇮 #NATO #RussiaIsCollapsing #Russia #UkraineRussianWar
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@LG_RoyalsBlue @davidjoachim @mwoody68 @Lakimies100 @BobVanVoris Doesn’t matter. The gov’t can’t throw up impediments to speech and defend itself by saying “well, we only made it really hard. We didn’t make it impossible.”
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@LG_RoyalsBlue @davidjoachim @mwoody68 @Lakimies100 @BobVanVoris You mean... the government has prevented you from speaking back to it... which is unconstitutional.
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@RealDeanCain @WhitlockJason Then again, you’re an enthusiastic supporter of the party of racism, so
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@sidesteptatum That’s not true at all. Sorry you had to play our whole team.
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4 years
If there is no price to be paid for trying to orchestrate a coup d’etat the republic will not long survive these outright attacks.
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Days after calling for a military coup, Michael Flynn tells Jeanine Pirro that governors should "not certify these elections" Flynn also calls Sidney Powell “America's guardian angel of justice”
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@marcorubio @DefenseBaron As an Iraq veteran, maybe you can forgive us for casting a skeptical eye at government claims of evidence and causus belli. You guys squandered our precious credibility on matters of war way back in the Bush days.
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@oliverdarcy Ooooh. That's... not a mistake. That's an integrity violation. 👀
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@nytimes You guys are still using “confronted” in the headline instead of “assaulted,” huh?
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@TaskandPurpose Would have been solved by having an ounce of loyalty to your country.
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@davonsports @WizardJuniper @Lyndi_Hodges @Fulcrum__7 @mim_sabin @Sciencenature14 But it's a good habit of mind to be able to provide sources so you don't traffic in bullshit.
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@rcjparry @jaketapper The man who tried to overthrow our democracy, thus requiring them to be there? Yeah. No shit.
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@BNNBreaking @RudyGiuliani People should never lay hands on someone else. That said, obviously this should not be prosecuted.
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@mattyglesias If only he had a whole room full of cameras and an entire staff of communications professionals to help him communicate to the country and the world!
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@willsommer Krakens aren’t known for their spelling! It’s for tentacles n shit
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@Dane_Z75 @speecherkelly @SteveLevitan @FoxNews @CNN @ABC @NBCNews @CBSNews That is false equivalence. Mainstream news has journalistic standards and strives - however imperfectly - to be objective. FOX News is straight propaganda, and apparently also full of rapists. It is a place where morality has no purchase.
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@davonsports @WizardJuniper @Lyndi_Hodges @Fulcrum__7 @mim_sabin @Sciencenature14 I disagree. Twitter is effectively the worldwide news ticker. There is no way to get breaking news faster. The problem is not having the news literacy and critical thinking so people believe Joe Schmo when he’s talking out of his ass, instead of credible sources.
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@HenryKrinkIe @lymanstoneky Will they get prosecuted for attempted murder?
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@cat_travis @AriBerman Bad people. Genuinely bad people are doing this all over America.
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@mwquinn1930 @JasonIsbell Really? Am I American? I’ve got 10 years in the army and two tours in Iraq with that flag on my shoulder. I feel *pretty American.* Especially because I’m not a traitor, who sold out our intel folks, the Kurds and our own troops to to the Russians.
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Having your child be orphaned into the worst social safety system in the developed world because you were mass-murdered by selfish white male asshole with an assault rifle on the 4th of July is the most American thing ever.
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"When I picked him up, he said, 'Are Mommy and Daddy coming soon?'" the little boy's grandfather said Tuesday. "He doesn't understand."
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@RadioFreeTom The man is LITERALLY a traitor. Info ops require *deniability* to work. He publicly gave literal aid to the enemy in Helsinki when we helped Russia deny and coverup their attacks on our election—against ALL of the evidence collected by our national security community.
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@hankgreen I see a LOT more right wing cranks with enthusiastic check marks and opinions about "wokeness"
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I actually agree with this massive intervention. Houses are not like normal assets.
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Should be illegal for giant investment firms to buy up thousands of single family homes. Just ban that.
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@JordanPeterj @SenWarren Soooo.... I take it you don't understand what part of the government is responsible for price stability and the money supply....
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@butzelw40 @samyoungman @notcapnamerica They’re pivoting to Both Sides journalism I stead of calling out lies and threats to democracy. They fired John Harwood this morning, and a bunch of anchors are now complaining that there were Marines 50 meters behind Biden, and that he was divisive / mean to fascists.
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@BillFOXLA The President 100% did not say "the border isn't important enough to visit." You're fabricating political quotes and falsely attributing them to the President. Ohhhh... I just realized you're FOX News. So you ARE a propagandist and not a journalist. Makes sense.
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@thechrischilds @LesleaSchofield @Jennanjack @marcorubio @DLoesch Uh... believing civilians have a right to military weapons infringed on those 17 kids’ right to life...
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@lilpianofingers @AZ_Brittney Supporting one politician or another isn’t always a character issue. But for anyone who supports Trump it unquestionably is.
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@jonathanchait Look. Either we are a nation of laws, or we aren’t. This is the PLAIN meaning and intent of the entire 14th Amendment. This is the Constitution. Political optics are not a consideration. Want to change it, gotta amend the Constitution.
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@tedsthetruth @jaketapper She is LITERALLY the SPEAKER of the House of Representatives.
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@NbaGenius548 @PlayoffDraymond What are you talking about. Dubs know more about being the 1 seed than anybody
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@maxwelltani @oliverdarcy If this leads to him kicking Tucker Carlson in the balls I'm all for it
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@epicdndmemes Fans were lied to by influencers. Movie was quite a success apparently.
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@smutoro @elonmusk @Twitter You have to say “parody” in your user name now
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@EylerWerve @EvelKneidel This is the best tweet. My grandfather flew one of those things over Dresden.
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@pegobry It's not impossible for the rest of us. What a silly and groundless assertion. It's weird the stuff you detonate your credibility over.
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@pjux @MikeIsaac civil society, actually
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I like Mayor Pete
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@LanceStLaurent @scottEmovienerd I loved JoJo Rabbit. It was absurdist. I get that's not everybody's taste, but it was not objectively "terrible."
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@biannagolodryga They're about to pay the price of not knowing the difference between propaganda and reality
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As an experiment, look at the average character level and behavior of the blue check replies compared to the non-blue check replies. Pretty amazing to sell a product that selects for genuinely bad people.
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@up_girl11 @thistallawkgirl That may be, but you haven��t learned to tell “vertical” from “horizontal.”
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@brithume No. You were 100% wrong all along. He has always been malevolent and incompetent. It’s only now that it’s hitting something you care about.
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@KerithBurke That's why this was totally justified.
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@NBCNightlyNews @kasie You're a real profile in courage @SpeakerRyan 🙄
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@Shinyvelvetgarb @JRubinBlogger @joshrogin @KellyannePolls @ThisWeekABC That’s how criminal law works. In elections, voters have to make their decisions with the best available information they have. The accusations are HIGHLY credible. Unlike the screaming about Hilary’s emails and Benghazi. Did you say “innocent until proven guilty” there?
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@maxberger He's not changing. He's admitting.
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@heliotropix @coreykindberg Seriously. If the wifi is good that might be the right answer...
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@madrid_mike I dunno. The Supreme Court is a cul-de-sac of unconstrained power. Kindof a super loophole in the system. And if there's one thing we've learned, it's that the people who want to take power against the will of the people love exploiting loopholes to do so without accountability
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@SCDG2330 Wise has been WAY above my expectations this season.
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@BeachyCat45 @dianne_inkpen @wyotriumphrider @alainparadis @AshaRangappa_ @davidfrum Perfect MAGA level reply — shows no comprehension of the topic they themselves raised, and no morality or loyalty to the country. 👌
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@RadioFreeTom What fraction of Dems do you think support these things? "Defund the police" is just nut-picking, and pretending it is the position of the Dems is just a political hit job to derail actual governing.
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@somanyjets Kudos to the sound designers. The squish gets me every time.
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@ProfessorPongo @AndrewYang Everything isn’t “gaslighting.” And definitely not this.
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I am VERY interested in updates about this dude (apparently named James Iannazzo) who works @MerrillLynch . This needs to be fucking JAIL. That was assault, battery and interfering with a 9/11 call. I don't know anything about hate crimes, but he was hella racist about it, too.
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@GayPatriot @briantylercohen @ScottforFlorida You’re not a patriot. You’re a toxic bigot.
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OMG Claire McCaskill is saying what we’ve all being thinking for years. Donald Trump is an absolute moron. Even people desperately on his side say it all the time.
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oh @clairecmc just has no fucks left.
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@gil_yoder @KellieMeyerNews @NationalGuard @NewsNation Hi Gil. I see that you are unfamiliar with American laws and values. In this country, the police cannot give arbitrary and unlawful orders, and certainly not to the press. What you want is called a “police state,” but that is illiberal, unAmerican (and pretty submissive BTW).
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@EricRWeinstein @bdomenech @Google Eric - do you honestly think Google thinks HR>code, let alone teaches it to anyone? Or are you making a straw man argument on purpose?
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@AndrewYang What are the exceptions, Andrew? Let’s make this productive and not performative.
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@KylenMills For real. Life is bigger than basketball.
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@joshtpm Josh—I like you, but this is wrong. Vance could have caught a rocket or IED, just like any of us. In general, you should not diminish any veteran's service, unless you have specific and credible information that they behaved dishonorably.
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@mmasnick Jack was literally simultaneously the CEO of a payments company and HE didn't try this shit.
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@BurningWaters69 @Apaxche64 @BleacherReport Haha. You're writing your bullshit in a notes file like it's the 2 minute report. Did the refs make the Celtics turn it over 18 times? Did the refs jump up and block the 10 free throws they missed? Such an embarrassing fan base.
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@gregsandiego @mehdirhasan This is the quality of reasoning we’ve all come to expect from blue checks.
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@themattdimitri "The system" being democracy and the rule of law. It's actually not fun when those get destroyed. I've seen it.
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@JudgeFergusonTX Good for you, sir. You handled this magnanimously and it was a good example for all the citizens who saw it. We all have days where we're Zoom Cat. We should all aspire to be as gracious to others as Judge Ferguson.
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@Homestake1 @JVando I don't watch the Wolves and I know who Jarred Vanderbilt is. Dude is nice. Great defender. Don't broadcast that you're such a casual.
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@darlin_daisy @rklueber28 The cops violated all of their training and murdered two innocent people and endangers dozens or hundreds more. Firing into a crowd of innocents is INSANE. It’s also negligent homicide. Unbelievably dumb thing to say.
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@M7_Reaper @3000yearsmovie After watching that explosion of fantasy and wonder, you came up with THIS? OMG you suuuuuuuuck
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@ThucydidesOfUSA @EricRWeinstein @bdomenech @Google I have a feeling that call was *not* made at the HR lackey level...
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History will remember Justin Amash as perhaps the only national elected Republican who was both honorable AND courageous. The rest will be historic villains, like the Vichy are to the French.
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JUST IN: Rep. Justin Amash, the only congressional Republican who publicly argues that President Trump has engaged in impeachable conduct, announced he is quitting the GOP.
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@jonathanvswan @HansNichols You Washington types are always playing your same songs. Nobody needs to get fired. They're doing a hard thing. The people understand and appreciate it. You guys are detached.
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@957thegame @SteinyGuru957 I dunno. Dude just won the NBA championship and dropped 43 in Game 4 against a “historic defense” to turn the series around.
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@LeaderMcConnell @HeathMayo It was not a peaceful transfer of power. The Republican Party tried to overthrow American democracy. And we won't forget.
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@TryHardTries @wsavalexb Yeah. That notorious hive of people who respect women.
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I am increasingly judgmental about the integrity of people who claim to represent the thoughts or words of others and are obviously lying and/or straw-manning. Huge and useful red flag for integrity and intellectual rigor, once you start noticing it.
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Constantly whispering into young adults ears “I don’t think you can really handle the world as it is” is disempowering & a disservice to them. It’s the reverse CBT I’ve been warning about since 2014. It feels compassionate in the short term, but isn’t for the long term.
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@royalpratt Uh.... what the F? That's not how criminal justice works. Small children know that.
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@warriorsworld It’s weird they you’re this into basketball and somehow don’t understand that play style affects foul frequency. We can’t blame this game on anyone but ourselves.
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@danprimack @sarafischer Christ. Seriously? Has nobody in the war room ever MET an actual software developer? Just code a new one. It will be faster, better and more maintainable. Nobody wants to excavate 6 year old code.
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Are you shitting me? They put BIDEN’s health at risk based on TRUMP’s “honor?” You have got to be fucking kidding me.
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BREAKING: Chris Wallace says Trump arrived too late to the debate to get tested and used the honor system.
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Good dataviz
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In earlier years, Carlson regularly interviewed guests who debated him on issues, but he has recently devoted far less airtime to opposing views. Of nearly 7,000 guest appearances since 2016, about 1,000 of them contradicted him.
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@AshleyRParker Geeez. Seriously Ashley? Not taking questions one time is acting against democracy? Stop with the self-important melodrama. Your thing isn't the only thing that matters.
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@mredd3 @stephenfhayes Shoulda chosen to be loyal to the nation instead of supporting those trying to overthrow it. You made your choice to side against the United States. Bad choice.
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@Goss30Goss @scontorno Bc they don't screen for immorality.
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@RashidaTlaib @imraansiddiqi Freedom of speech doesn’t exist for Muslim women in Congress? What’s the evidence of that? Because that SOUNDS like a lie. Was it just that (someone) didn’t get what they wanted? We’re probably on the same side, but I can’t stand the lying.
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@KatzOnEarth @oliverdarcy Man, I was trying to find a charitable interpretation of your question that wasn’t “I don’t think it’s a big deal to report false information” but I couldn’t find it. People have standards of integrity which justify their reputations and how we should all treat them.
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@CathyYoung63 @JamesSurowiecki @TPCarney Who knew about this “big push?” News to me.
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@HowieLongggg I know you don't care about the truth, but it wasn't a foul bc Luka traveled first. If you didn't know the rules, now you do.
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@edokeefe Jesus dude. Most people who cry able-ism are reaching but I don’t know what else to call this. You dressed it up as what other people would think, but you raised the issue. You should be ashamed.
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@AchillesDVR Show me in the Constitution where it says the President is immune from prosecution for official acts. The Constitution does enumerate immunity for speech and debate on the floor of Congress. It does NOT grant it to the President. Stop trying to overthrow the rule of law.
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@davetroy Honestly—if they do that, it will be FAR more consequential than ending Roe. It was basically destroy the American government, and what little ability we have to solve collective action problems. It will rapidly hasten the death of the nation.
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@SkinnerPm Yep. You have to practice sacrificing something for others. But also, we have a whole major sub-culture that fetishizes selfishness (and calls it freedom). That's the biggest problem. Hard to change culture.
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@TheWarriorsTalk I like Luka, man. He hasn't been flopping and whining in this series like he did during the regular season. And damn he's a nice player.
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