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Haifan. Wife guy. Cool dad. Juris doctor. Maronite. Pedro Castillo rememberer. Coloradan. Former: morning host @ STL's The U FM and opinion writer @ Denver Post
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It's actually hard to describe just how deeply I regret moving back to the US. This place is not well. I don't think people here appreciate just how unwell it is. It's legitimately scary being a parent in America. None of this is normal or okay. It's dark.
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The funny thing about this is that Middle Eastern Christians would line up for Palestine too.
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@heartmamaof4
I try to devote a lot of posts to this, but the main takeaway is that in the US everything is a high stakes, winner-take-all ideological battle. There is no human face to the pandemic. It's all ideological posturing where real lives are forgotten. I feel like a pawn, not a person
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We just moved back to the US less than a week ago after a years-long hiatus abroad. The thing that strikes me most? How profoundly underdeveloped much of the US really is. Infrastructure, medicine, laws, people, pandemic response, all of it. This is not a first world country.
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@heartmamaof4
Finally the politics are so sclerotic. It's amazing that policymakers are unable to even begin addressing major crises (guns, climate, health care, mental health, etc.) in even incremental ways. Americans are entirely on their own. It's Lord of the Flies, but with iphones.
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@heartmamaof4
But I also notice just how lost people seem, how latent the anger and despair are. Everyone is either drugged up or on the verge of explosion. It feels so untenable. People are really struggling.
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The online pearl clutching about this is worse than the actual extinguishing. The core Jewish population of Poland is 0.0001% of the general population. It's extremely weird to be putting up menorahs in the parliament of a country like that. Not everything is a Chabad House.
🚨Just in: Poland MP Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Jewish Hanukkah candles at Poland's parliament.
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@FaithFortune99
I'm glad you mentioned this. I'm actually on the spectrum. You have no idea how freeing it was to leave a society predicated on so much performativity and pretense. Coming back here made me feel like I was being tossed into a kind of prison.
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@DrewPavlou
If you're going to identify as Middle Eastern then you're going to have to get your Arabic in working order, Drew.
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@shwilson24
@KevinWheatleyKY
@WDRBNews
@GCCSchools
The flu has a vaccine and far less contagion than a basically virgin and vaccine-less disease that is for the whole population far worse than the flu. This is not about the kids. It is about the country.
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@empathy1st1
I actually grew up down the street from Columbine. I was a freshman in a nearby high school when Columbine happened. That's actually when I first started to see just how messed up everything was. It shook me. It was a kind of rubicon for everyone.
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@SenSanders
Manchin talks about an entitlement society like it's a bad thing. But, actually, yeah, we *are* entitled to health care. We *are* entitled to education. We *are* entitled to a safe environment. These are basic human rights. Not government goodies.
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I'm being asked to fax things as I drive behind giant pickups past "free covid testing centers" in shady strip mall corners advertizing work as a covid tester for 16 bucks an hour. And I live in one of the largest metro areas in North America, not some rando whoville. Surreal.
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There are like 5 Maronite falangist posters on here, 3 of which live in like New Jersey, and people think "Israel has/had a strong support base in Lebanon." Actually, nobody in Lebanon, including Maronites, supports Israel. It's a hasbarist lie.
Lebanon is a country where Israel always had a strong support base, where many people and communities even thought Israel was an i dispensable part of the regional balance. That’s over now. The whole of Lebanon will see in Israel a cruel and violent enemy intent on destruction
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@daveweigel
Everybody is complaining that still
- we don't have $2000
- minimum wage is a latte at Starbucks
- we are dropping bombs are war torn countries
- we are kissing the feet of brutally murderous "allies"
But stop bring ungrateful, okay? The secretary of transportation is gay.
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"Let's take the kids to a parade in Evanston," said my wife.
All morning I've had a weird feeling about it. Guns, crowds, Americans. Just felt risky.
It was just canceled. A sniper was taking shots at people at the parade in the suburb just a few miles north. Many casualties.
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My not-quite-final Senate predictions
AZ: Kelly +3.5
PA: Fetty +2.5
NV: CCM +3
NC: Budd +0.5
OH: Ryan +1
WI: Johnson +1
GA: Warnock wins 50.3-46.5
IA: Grassley +5
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@DrEricDing
We are conducting a broad involuntary epidemiological experiment on kids right now, hoping that they will understand that although they are important the main thing is that Olive Garden has all you can eat breadsticks and college football season begins in a few weeks.
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@Bogs4NY
I love how they keep the mask rule as a cute little token to public safety. It's like driving 100 mph down the intersrate but being super diligent about using your turn signal as you weave between lanes of traffic.
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@mrsorokaa
I honestly wonder what kind of rebuilding plan they have for post-war Ukraine. There will be a ton of EU cash available in Kyiv but with maybe only half the population. I hope they offer expedited residency to creatives, digital nomads, entrepreneurs, etc. from abroad.
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@NateSilver538
Have you heard of Easter, Nate? Half the states didn't to any pandemic reporting yesterday.
Cases are climbing. Deaths will soon, too. Spiking the football at midfield is not good for anyone.
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@JakeAnbinder
Honestly if the best "most successful left of center leader in 60 years" is also a genocide supporter I feel like "people not coalitioning" with you is probably the least of your country's worries.
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There's a massive post-Dobbs shift towards Democrats in the suburbs of almost the entire midsection of the country. We keep seeing it over and over again and for some dumb reason pretend that it won't be electorally significant.
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Notice how *the father of a girl kidnapped by Hamas terrorists* shows more conviction, grace, and compassion than all of the American liberals who saw a few videos yesterday and were suddenly like, "oh nah I'm done with two states and Palestinian sympathy. RIP Gaza."
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I should probably clarify that Middle Eastern Christians also care deeply about other Christians in the region. But the point is that Christians in the region understand very well that supporting Christians and supporting Palestinians is not mutually exclusive.
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@BNODesk
Forget a white Christmas, I'm dreaming of living in a country that has the courage to do this to save lives. Instead I live in an America that is relaxing quarantine rules for kids instead. It's dystopian.
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@MikaelThalen
"I'm prepared to go forward with it," he says, as though he were, in fact, a talking cat.
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@MattZeitlin
@mattyglesias
That's exactly right. Americans have bathrooms and big TVs. Europeans have good health care and a 35 hour work week. These are the different priorities and yes it says everything.
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@nadiaaakd
The problem is that, for much of the world, we don't. Palestinian rights and identity are seen strictly as this pan-islamic thing, which is exactly what supporters of the occupation want people to think. It's makes people feel like they're supporting ISIS or something.
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Someone asked me to pinpoint the thing stands out the most about America since I moved back. It's this. America is faceless. People matter for their productive ability, their profitability, their ideological identity and affiliation. But people don't matter as people, as persons.
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You all can fetishize the Trump photo if you want. You want iconic photos that demonstrate courage and the irrepressible dignity if the human spirit?
I don't think the bloody ear of a rich carnival barker really compares.
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@chrislhayes
Americans: broken promises and lackluster pandemic leadership have us really doubting Biden's ability to build a better future.
Pundits: hahaha see it's probably just gas prices hahaha.
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Let's be honest. So much of American education is rich white liberals curating a curriculum desired by rich white parents and then making a really big deal about "Black history month" so that everything seems equitable and cool to people.
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I'll just say this. I never, ever, want to be lectured about the moral and spiritual contours of the Catholic faith by people who blithely shrug off a pandemic that kills off thousands of the most vulnerable people around us. It's time for you to listen and not speak.
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It's interesting to me that the right wing Christians in the West who spend a lot of time talking about the plight of Middle Eastern Christians are strangely silent about the killing of Shireen Abu Aqleh, one of the more prominent Middle Eastern Christians.
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I know most of you don't know what it feels like, or maybe you do, but I haven't for one minute since moving to the US in October stopped feeling like I've walked into the upside world, a grim dystopian hellscape where everything is shadowy and toxic. I hate it here.
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@DavidEggert00
@HotlineJosh
I'm sorry--and I really am, because I like Whitmer and I think she was marvelous last spring--but this is insane. "Voluntary compliance" is meaningless blather for "y'all on your own" and it astonishes me that she would do that given her seriousness about public health a year ago
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Here's the thing about the pandemic. It will end eventually. The current wave will end soon. But you know what I will never get over? Having an entire generation of political and media leaders tell us that we don't matter, our lives don't matter, and our kids don't matter.
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@PhonecianD
It is just surreal growing up year, leaving for several years, and then coming back to find that everything is upside down. Did America change? Did *I* change? It's probably *both*, and it's made this experience really disorienting.
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@Spartaks
So why not do one of the million other important and worthwhile things Poland does to memorialize the Holocaust? Why do Jewish religious worship in parliament?
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I think Palestinians have been forced to acknowledge the Israeli narrative for 76 years and to be honest it hasn't exactly been pleasant or convincing.
Yesterday was Israeli Independence Day, today is Palestinian Nakba Day, reflecting the opposing narratives of 1948.
Acknowledgement of each other’s narratives is an essential part of creating a reality where both peoples can live with freedom, dignity and equality.
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Israel has gone from pariah state to straight up parody state. Its not even real at this point.
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@DougJBalloon
Children with their faces blown to bits is bad but we all know that the most pressing concern in American classrooms is whether fictional black people in books question whether America is a fully equal society.
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It's really grim how lonely America is. So many people I come across are just kind of detached. There's just no heart, no humanity, no warmth. A lot of things strike me about life here since we moved back. But this one really guts me. Americans are cold.
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@NateSilver538
I think a childless middle aged man is probably the least convincing voice possible when it comes to parents' concerns about long covid, severe illness, etc. You aren't going to convince to shrug off our kids getting covid.
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This isn't the quiet part. Our political parties are explicitly committed to making Israel a democratic state for all rather than a Jewish apartheid state.
When they say the quiet part out loud
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Not saying it's necessarily bad, but American Catholics need to understand that the whole Exodus 90 thing is the most Anerican thing ever. The rest of the world finds it so weird that you need to make basic Christian spirituality a commoditized niche.
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@EoinHiggins_
South Dakota teachers are the second lowest paid in the US. I would use that cash to leave the state or, better yet, the whole country.
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@umichvoter
I mean most of Douglas County and the growing parts of Adams County are not exactly "no GOP suburbs." It's just that the suburbs used to be all red and now they're mixed with many Dem-leaning.
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It's actually deeply amusing that Gal Gadot, whom Zionists often use as a kind of ideological prop, ends us being the most absolutely sane and normal voice you hear.
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@ebruenig
That would be a horrifying, even demonic experience, and yeah absolutely we should not want our kids to see that.
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The thing about American discontent is that it's always neutered by wealth. In poorer countries the place would be on fire by now. But American wealth gives a facade of being okay even as everything is actually upside down. It's disorienting to try to see things as they are.
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So you can see why some people feel like these posters are more of a crass ideological tool and not a good-natured attempt and keeping alive the hope of victims' return.
Let’s see how much drama we can cause in SF.
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Did the Pope just call Israel a terrorist state?
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@NateSilver538
There are just over 900 people hospitalized with covid in Australia.
There are over 70,000 people hospitalized with covid in the United States.
That is the difference between (relative) success and (utter) failure.
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@GalenMetzger1
Most of what's left in Pueblo is mail, there might be some left still in Pitkin/Garfield, and there is nothing else left in the places Boebert has won. Certainly looks good for Frisch.
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My now-final Senate predictions
AZ: Kelly +3
NV: CCM +1
WI: Johnson +1
GA: Runoff
NC: Budd +4
PA: Fetty +<1
IA: Grassley +4
NH: Hassan +5
OH: Ryan +1
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@torriangray
For a second I thought they were wearing masks and I was like, wow based health-conscious Evangelicals.
But no.
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@davidplouffe
The most American ending ever, though. Traditionism about the most infantile and meaningless things while radically shrugging off the dissolution of those that really matter, like democracy.
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My wife's class is quarantined--except for the five kids who are vaccinated. They will be welcome to join the remote learning class *with their computers in the classroom*. But tell me how we don't think of teachers mainly as babysitters.
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@cmasonphoto
So the biggest problem you have with your sister's new husband is that he's a little older and posts (and then deletes) right wing political stuff online? Have you bothered asking, you know, *your sister* how she feels about any of this?
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@jxhn_003
It's not school start times that do this. It's school day length. Why can't kids start at 9 but still get out at 2?
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@StevenTDennis
The problem is that waiting until now to really get serious about masks and basic safety protocols is like quitting smoking once you have stage iv lung cancer. Great, but after allowing the outbreak to spread "unacceptably" you don't have much choice *but* to go into lockdown.
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@iyad_elbaghdadi
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We are also one of the world's best examples of coexistence, working cooperatively within civil society and politics to realize the national aspirations we share with our Muslim neighbors.
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I'm not sure that "we so deeply traumatized a people we gave them something to build a national identity around" is quite the slam dunk take you think it is, hasbara guy.
For most Arabs who experienced the Nakba, it was also the first time they discovered they were Palestinians.
Until then, they were primarily Arabs, migrant workers who had arrived only a decade or two earlier to make a living, and suddenly found themselves as Palestinian
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@Jesuislibis
Oh well that's just the original and world's oldest Christian community. No big deal.
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I guess the closest I can come to explaining for Americans the situation in Israel right now is to imagine if Mitch McConnell was president and he appointed David Duke secretary of Homeland Security and they both planned to legislatively revoke Marbury v. Madison. It's wild.
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The beautiful thing about Brandon Presley winning is that it would trigger the libs as much as partisan Republicans.
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Palestinian Arabic differs between cities, between the northern West Bank and the southern West Bank etc. It's often like that when your language isn't some incoherent fairy tale thing invented 100 years ago by this one European guy to make your nationalism seem more authentic.
@History__Speaks
2. West Bank Arabs and Gaza Arabs speak different dialects of Arabic? Why, it's almost as if they're two different peoples. Not any sort of unified "Palestinian" "nation".
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Gee I wonder how it ever got a reputation like that!
Despite its reputation for causing mild illness, the Omicron coronavirus variant is fueling a staggering rise in hospitalizations across the U.S.
What are doctors on the front lines seeing? Listen to today’s episode of The Daily.
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@Fan26_America
@sock_dem
Clearly the solution is actually more Americans putting Palestinian flags in their social media bios. This would do it, surely.
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@RuralLeftie98
That rarely ends well. In politics you never want to fly too close to the sun.
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Imagine being so scared about what black voices have to say about you that you feel like you need to make sure it never gets said.
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@NTarnopolsky
There is certainly some holocaust-cheapening going on here but I don't think they appreciate that the one doing the cheapening isn't Zelensky.
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Obviously Democrats cannot feel triumphant at early vote numbers in Nevada, but I think people have been reacting more to Ralston's weirdly melodramatic framing of each update and less to the data itself, which shows reasons for concern but certainly not doom for Democrats.
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My sense among a lot of Catholics is that we have had such deeply partisan (and mostly Republican) ideas drilled into us for so long that it has infantalized the way we vote and think about politics. That has cheapened not only how we view politics, but also how we view faith.
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It's honestly deeply impressive to me how almost every Palestinian parent I talk to tells me that they're doing everything they can to help their kids resist the easy urge to hate the Jews who live around us. Few people know what to do right now, but they know that hate isn't it.
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@NTarnopolsky
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She is not just wearing fascism. She is straight up injecting the stuff.
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Big cities in the US have reputations--almost entirely undeserved--of being bastions of progressive policy. But--forget the segregation and bourgeois economics--have you noticed which school districts are flexing hardest about forcing kids and teachers into unsafe classrooms?
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@BAshbyMD
Why--pathologically--isn't this more common among football players given the high contact nature of the sport? Sudden blunt trauma to the chest is so exceedingly common I just wonder what it is about the heart rhythm that makes it so rare for a hit to occur at a dangerous moment.
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@DLeonhardt
Linking any deterioration in kids' well being to a year of remote learning and not to, say, the inherent pressures of a soulless and cutthroat capitalistic society bent on sacrificing their relatives for the sake of all you can eat breadsticks at Olive Garden, seems specious.
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@bethanyshondark
Grandma Killer just dropped a new EP. Really cornering the market on this brand, honestly.
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The primary function of democracy is not electoral choice but rather making a political system responsive and protective of the legitimate aspirations and rights of a people. It's hard to fight for a democracy that maybe doesn't even exist.
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@RepDanKildee
I'm a Republican & just called three undecided Republican congressman in my home state of Colorado... from *Israel.* Vote No.
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I mean, I joke, but this is a new poll from
@IDIisrael
that shows a solid majority of Jews in Israel who, in practice if not even in theory, support the actual starvation of a population that is overwhelmingly comprised of women and children. That's crazy, right? It's messed up.
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@BNODesk
They're greasing the skids at this point, aren't they? It's like a giant involuntary epidemiological experiment and we are the subjects. Surreal.
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Some trad Catholics freak out about "the catechesis! the catechesis!" in American Catholicism and then go out there and tell people that infant formula and sliced bread are immoral and that it's good to be chill about almost a million Americans dying from covid.
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What's the point of giving people expanded voting rights when you throw your voters and their basic needs under the bus every single time?
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