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Both parties are beyond saving. The media is somehow worse. #BothSides and #Whataboutism are my middle names. Read @Reason .

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Possibly the most poorly aged popular notion in my lifetime is "They're just silly college kids you should ignore. None of this nonsense will ever take hold in the real world".
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The USA has controlled the Black Hills for longer than the Lakota, who ethnically cleansed the original inhabitants in a genocidal conquest in 1776.
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@LaurenRowello You realize this sounds insane to like 95% of Americans and most gay people.
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@MichLKosinski Ben Rhodes: “We created an echo chamber. They were saying things that validated what we had given them to say. The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. They literally know nothing.”
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The Jacobins executed 12,000 people without a trial in one year.
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Last night’s police crackdowns on pro-Palestine protesters at universities across the country were nothing short of authoritarian.
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@nytimes Chief Seattle owned dozens of slaves. Nearly every Native American tribe lived on land that at some point previously they *stole* from other tribes, and they regularly fought territorial wars. One of the greatest accomplishments in human history was ending this eternal cycle.
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@nytimes Whenever Chief Washakie's leadership was questioned by a member of his tribe, he would disappear for a few days and come back with the scalps of other tribes. History is brutal. Historical context is important. What's important is remembering how and why this no longer happens.
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@EricLevitz @HistoryBoomer Did you miss the entire year of gloating over the deaths of the unvaccinated. It is the *exact* same.
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@colorblindk1d
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@NPR The average NPR employee thinks about race more than the average Daily Stormer reader.
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@SenMarkey I trust Elon more than I trust any Senator.
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@WilliamBoone93 @Salon And we have made more progress than basically any other civilization in history. None of America's sins are historically unique or exceptional, but the progress and prosperity is.
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@colorblindk1d
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It's insane how many "activist" conservative rulings are literally just "Congress should pass a law. This isn't our job." It is the exact opposite of an activist court.
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Alito tells Congress to do its job in his concurring opinion on bump stock case:
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@justinjm1 The last time Republicans were in charge of San Francisco, Democrats were still the pro-segregation party.
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@colorblindk1d
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@politico Lol yes it is definitely Republicans who injected partisan politicization into school boards.
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@therecount Passenger cars contribute almost nothing to road deterioration and maintenance. When we run calculations for road pavement design, we don't even take them into account; only trucks.
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@nytimes You said the same about the radio when that came out because they threatened your monopoly on propaganda.
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@jaketapper In a different era the President would have faced political consequences and pressure from the media for what happened in Afghanistan.
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@thedailybeast Enemy of the people content right here.
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@JeremyBWhite @GavinNewsom He was Lieutenant Governor for 8 years before he was Governor. He's been in charge of the state for over a decade.
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@colorblindk1d
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@scottwongDC @AOC We are governed entirely by unserious drama kings and queens. All of them. Both parties.
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@evanzedxxx @officerfrenly Why? What is the geographic limit to when it's different, or is it just skin color? If the Inca somehow managed to conquer the Iroquois, why is that different than the British, who actually lived closer to the Iroquois?
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@RNickinfinite @GMA @BiasedGirl @tjholmes I'm pretty sure my dad fully pushed me off the high dive at the lake as a kid by this age when I was crying. I then proceeded to jump off 100X times because it was awesome.
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@colorblindk1d
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@GoAngelo He's a sitting US Senator who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Who else is there to reach out to?
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@sfchronicle In what world is this not "diverse"?
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@Dragonslay3r94 @artbyhumans Moths are one of the easiest animals for a human to capture. lol
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@ValerieJarrett @BarackObama All of politics is a grift.
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@kylegriffin1 But is his accusation true? Shouldn't that matter? And a non-politician businessman in the 90s doing this is very different than the son of a sitting Vice President doing this.
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@GStephanopoulos Reminder that George Stephanopoulos was Bill Clinton's campaign director and WH communications director who obstructed a federal investigation. This is like Kelly Anne Conway interviewing a Republican.
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@ewarren @GavinNewsom Creationists have done less harm to science than the politicians who just say "trust science" over and over again while doing things that are not in fact supported by science.
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@NPR Again...
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@NPR The average NPR employee thinks about race more than the average Daily Stormer reader.
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@ErikWemple Ben Rhodes: “We created an echo chamber. They were saying things that validated what we had given them to say. The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. They literally know nothing.”
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@AndrewYang You calling out Fox as if CNN and MSNBC aren't just as bad is a cowardly cop out.
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@DonnaHowardTX I can walk two blocks to a laundromat and have them wash, dry, and fold my clothes in like 3 hours for $.75/lb. How is this not a bit?
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@Shuten_Koji No, but at some point we need to break the cycle of violence, which we obviously have. The Lakota were one of the most warmongering nations in America. Why should they get claim to any territory they conquered then lost to the USA?
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@CNNPolitics Kim Jong Un gets jealous of the way American journalists cover Joe Biden.
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@nytimes Sacagawea was kidnapped by a rival tribe when they ambushed her tribe and slaughtered villagers, and was sold into marriage at the age of 13, as was common for tribes at the time. This doesn't mean they were any more savage than the Europeans. All humans are the same.
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@nytimes This opposite version of American/white exceptionalism, in which white people are uniquely bad, is as historically revisionist and dangerous as the regular kind, and this racial essentialist collective blame is a dangerous road for any multi-ethnic society to go down.
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@AyannaPressley You didn't say anything about the two black kids murdered by the CHAZ/CHOP protesters in Seattle.
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@AndrewYang 100%. It's one of the greatest crises of our time, and it gets dismissed by people saying "So what? Boys had their time. The future is female.", which is every bit as vile and dangerous as the people saying girls shouldn't be doctors 50 years ago.
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Activists lie. All activists. They exaggerate, use hyperbole, & make up statistics: both "good" & "bad" causes. Never accept anything from any "activist" w/out double checking, especially for causes you support. Their entire existence relies on problems being worse than you think
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@sequinpants @ianbremmer @V2019N They also said there was no human-to-human transmission until the END of January.
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@SenMarkey (That's a low bar)
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Seriously, imagine getting mad at the person who literally carried you in their womb for 9 months for thinking that you were a human being while in there.
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Yes, Jennifer Lawrence is falling out with her parents for “raising a daughter” who they thankfully did not abort. The irony.
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@RosesofE @MichLKosinski I actually checked. She's 47! That means she graduated college during Bill Clinton's first term. How is such a take even possible?
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@atrupar Florida has more Cubans than Havana and more Puerto Ricans than San Juan. More than 1 in 4 Floridians is Hispanic or Latino.
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@voxdotcom @SwitchedOnPop @nyphil Are white people allowed to have any culture of their own?
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@kylegriffin1 JFC is this really all you have? I'm gay myself.
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@washingtonpost The fat acceptance movement is more deadly and unscientific than the tobacco companies who lied about the dangers of cigarettes.
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@marwilliamson 11 people were shot during the looting. None of them by cops. That's actually more people shot than the number of people shot by cops in Philadelphia in an entire year.
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@washingtonpost 100,000s of sons went to prison due to bills Biden wrote himself, all while his son was doing worse.
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@FallonTonight Her brain is wired the same exact way as Richard Spencer's. It is toxic.
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@washingtonpost The only shots fired at the Capitol riot were by police officers, and they killed an unarmed white woman. You all have the same exact takes on everything.
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@_MorseCoded @SwannMarcus89 It was fascinating watching how many politicians and celebrities and pundits accidentally claim Blake died, but nothing was as funny as all the people who though the people Kyle Rittenhouse killed were black when talking about.
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@TomBevanRCP Taking on Putin by becoming President and immediately handing him a huge geopolitical and economic victory.
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@tombrokaw Narrator: Nobody learned a lesson
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Egypt today is an entirely different (and mostly Arab) civilization with almost no direct ties or similarities to the Ancient Egyptians, whose language would still be unknown without Europeans. Most tombs and structures had been looted and destroyed before British set foot there.
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Your move, King Crimson
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@Shuten_Koji Have you ever read anything about the warfare of the pre-European-contact Plains Indians, and other groups? In the PNW, Chief Seattle owned numerous slaves and committed a literal genocide, slaughtering every man, woman, and child of another tribe.
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Weird how we keep getting think pieces about the "radicalization of young men" when their political leanings have remained consistent, but nobody is allowed to talk about the political radicalization of young women.
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@AJS77 @_SalmanAnwar The US has better cancer survival rates than the UK for every single type of cancer.
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@SachaBaronCohen @ADL This mentality is more dangerous and totalitarian than anything Facebook has done.
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@PasteMagazine All the happy people having fun are are out of touch, not bitter, miserable me.
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@jaymattt @IndieWire It's amazing how often professional journalists whose entire job is to write words and report on reality fail to spend 5 seconds on Google to get basic facts right and see if words they use are real or not.
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The last time one country straight up tried to conquer a neighbor was when Saddam invaded Kuwait, and in case you forgot, the US instantly came to their defense with a robust military campaign and fought the invaders back. Notably, Kuwait is not full of white people.
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@alisoneroman Do not apologize.
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Every white kid in the 90s watched Family Matters and Fresh Prince and Sister Sister, among other "Black" shows. None of these avoided uncomfortable conversations about racism. Yes, they were cheesy, but they were optimistic and inspirational, not cynical and insulting.
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@NBCNews @NBCOUT This is hysterical fearmongering
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@sciam This does more damage to science than anything Donald Trump has done.
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@billybinion Something they would never do to the Democrats who voted to reject the results of the 2000, 2004, and 2016 elections.
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@nytimes It takes far more bravery and courage to criticize China than it does to make political statements about the US, which is insane.
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@Milo_Edwards "Masturbating to the thought of somebody else is rape."
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@GeorgeTakei Should gay men who get HIV and weren't taking PrEP be denied health care? Identical situation.
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@RepPressley Fun fact: the first use of the filibuster to block a federal judge was by Democrats to block Miguel Estrada because he was Hispanic. Joe Biden played a major role in it.
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@DeeDeeRex @SecularConserv1 @washingtonpost And the OP and most comments on here are merely pointing out how infuriatingly hypocritical this argument is after 2 years of disrupting all of society and destroying kids education while publicly shaming people for engaging in relatively safe behavior.
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@CNNPolitics @Neoavatara It is a clean, stand-alone bill. What the hell is wrong with these people. This isn't a time for another omnibus generic spending bill. This isn't just an ordinary recession. It is an unprecedented planet-wide shut down of economic activity.
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@CNN @Nectar_Gan @lauraliuhe Russia successfully pulled off a staggering mass evacuation of a city at Chernobyl, a feat unrivaled by the rest of the world.
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This is a 150 year old monument to Union soldiers.
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Thread: Video of the 1868 was monument obelisk toppling over in the Santa Fe plaza this afternoon. A small business owner described mobs of people banging a drum, burning things and chanting loud. The only thing missing he said was police.
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@__BlackPhillip @CeFaanKim @WajahatAli There were too busy killing each other, like all human beings for most of history.
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@TheDailyShow He created a secret government kill list with which he could assassinate US citizens without due process or a fair trial. Even Bush and Cheney refused to go that far. He was a terrible, dangerous president who got away with literal murder because he gave good speeches.
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Never forget the time that every single institution in America spread an obviously implausible statistic invented by a 9 year old and it resulted in government policy changes.
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paper straws are so dumb
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@politico This is like shutting down efforts to monitor Nazis and banning criticism of Germany in 1937 because of fears of anti-German bias in America.
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@Shuten_Koji And they stole it in a more bloody manner just a century before.
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@mattyglesias When did liberals become nativists who don't like migrants coming into their sanctuary cities?
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@TheAtlantic @MollyJongFast "This true statement is a right-wing talking point so we are not going to say it" is literally just telling everybody to trust the right wing.
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@brad_polumbo @nedryun Stigma against irresponsible behavior is not stigma against gay people. There *should* be stigma against irresponsible behavior, especially from within the gay community, and that would lead to less stigma against gay people in general.
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@nbcwashington This is what we should be doing everywhere!
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@nwarikoo Every single gun rights activist supports this. Every single one.
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@ShannonOConnor0 You are why this chart looks like this.
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@thehill This deserves like a month in prison tops. I'm gay myself. This is absolutely absurd. Anybody who thinks this sentence is warranted is a vindictive totalitarian and opponent to criminal justice reform.
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@playbookdc Do you people hear yourselves?
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@politico This is an actual quote from the head of the LA Teacher's Union: "It’s OK that our babies may not have learned all their times tables. They learned resilience....They know the difference between a riot and a protest. They know the words insurrection and coup.” GTFO
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@larabazelon Because none of those people actually did those things?
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@scottwongDC @AOC The FDA and federal govt are slow-rolling approval of a vaccine, already approved in Europe, which we already have tens of millions of doses sitting in a warehouse. These assholes are out here complaining about how rioters scared them, after a year of them encouraging riots.
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@Variety I still love Snopes hilarious "fact check" that just made a bunch of excuses for why Samantha Bee and her husband opposed integrating her kids' wealthy white and Asian school with a school full of poorer minorities.
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@POTUS You were in the Senate for decades and you actually proposed a bill to overturn Roe and return it to the states.
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@bendreyfuss I 100% seriously think Trump and Biden should play a round of golf for charity. Make it mini golf, even! They need to hold some sort of event together that *isn't* a political event. It is basically the only way to calm things down right now.
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@clairlemon Two white women making science more inclusive by cancelling a brown man.
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@ewarren There are so many incidents of clear cut and unquestionable police violence. Why use this controversial incident whose main narrative turned out to be a lie?
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@EricLiptonNYT The Covington Catholic kids say hello.
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