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Award-winning prof. Books: Newest Profession, SHAM, Deadly Blessing (TV movie version: Bed of Lies). Memoir coming. Media bias begins with cherry-picked stories
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I dig this answer from Meta. More than you’d ever want to know about me. Very pleased at AI’s assessment of what my “writing explores…”
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Arguably the cutest thing I've ever seen.
This is Libby. She had a scab on her nose and when it healed, it left a perfect pink heart. A target for your smooches, if you will. 14/10
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#MeghanMarkIe
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Seriously, have you ever seen people more entitled (and more self-unaware in their entitlement) who played more types of victim cards more often? Good lord.
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Here's what bothers me about today's approach to filtering out "hate." Alex Jones posts comically transparent conspiracy theories, is banished from Facebook.
@sarahjeong
tweets unabashed contempt for whites, including death wishes, gets job with
@nytimes
edit board.
@CNN
@jack
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@AOC
@girlscouts
And while I'm on the subject, they recreated the Challenger mission? CHALLENGER? The one that blew up 73 secs into flight, killing everyone? Including former Girl Scout Christa McAuliffe? Fun project. But maybe prophetic, since
@AOC
seems to be blowing up early too,
@CNN
@FoxNews
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"Mr Trump, you have been eviscerated. Would you like the steaming entrails overnighted to Trump Tower?"
@VanJones68
@CNN
#DemsInPhilly
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In fact, let me ask that of two of our most visible/vocal feminists (not that they'll answer):
@rtraister
or
@JessicaValenti
, why is a woman saying/implying "do X for me and you'll get sex" all that different from a man saying "have sex with me and you'll get X"?
@CNN
@FoxNews
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@walterkirn
He reminds me eerily of someone I can’t place, a character or some such from a bygone era/cultural moment, and it’s an unpleasant association. I see him as less avuncular than menacing and I’m not sure why.
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One prospective host told the organizer that she “strongly disagrees with
@CHSommers
and feels it would be hypocritical for her to share a stage with Christina.” Ponder that mindset. It would preclude political debates. It would preclude Congress.
@CNN
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Please stop this. Stop talking about special intercessions, stop talking about impeaching Kavanaugh when he hasn't even taken his seat on the Court, stop harassing GOPers in elevators and restaurants.
Nov. 6 should've been a Blue Wave. You're gonna cause a Red one.
@ChrisCuomo
There’s only one thing left to do about Kavanaugh—we need to ask the eight sitting justices to help:
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@SteveStuWill
I'll read the research as soon as I finish painting stripes on myself and the dog.
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@CHSommers
I always wondered why using sex to manipulate men is a lesser offense than manipulating women to get sex. They seem equally wrong to me. If sex is so great a treasure to extract from a woman, why are women permitted to blithely commodify it to gain leverage in life?
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@GadSaad
Just posted about that. She was once a normal anti-woke crusader; effective critic of DEI and the rest the tide of reverse racism overspreading the land. And now...?
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@united
@SST3D
How’s this possible? If you set an a priori goal of filling cockpits w/50% women/people of color then that goal could conceivably override quality considerations. To insist otherwise is obfuscation/PR-speak.And you don’t want the best pilots? The *most* qualified? I’ll fly Delta
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@TeresaTraver1
You're arguing against a staple, commonsensical tactic in the arts. Writers and directors commonly (and effectively) use a character's appearance to supplement the personality they are trying to drive home. Do you want the Wicked Witch in Oz to look beautiful and welcoming? Silly
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I keep seeing the phrase "preying on" used to describe men who have multiple consensual relationships with women in their orbit. In only some cases does there appear to be a power dynamic in play. Have we reached the point where being a Lothario is "preying on" women?
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@poniewozik
Agree. But let's face it, the man injures himself daily. He has no self-control and no filter.
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@LouiseMensch
I killed all the neighbors within a five block radius and stole their provisions. That should suffice, no?
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This whole line of argument is tendentious BS. Everyone was on-board with tough crime laws then, including the Rev. Jackson, who made his (in)famous remark about hearing footsteps, turning around, seeing a white face and "feeling relieved." It was the era. Cities were exploding.
It's deeply misleading for the NYT to headline that Biden overhauled crime laws "with segregationist senators" when the article reluctantly admits that the Congressional Black Caucus and the black mayors of major cities across the U.S. also supported it.
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This may be the most myopic, tendentious and ultimately ludicrous take on Tarantino (and his cinematic oeuvre) I've ever seen. Talk about going into a piece with an agenda!
#cancelcancelculture
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@capeandcowell
Many Americans who grew up with Disney are sick of being preached to. For too long already major cultural institutions have been functioning as unappointed guardians of social "progress," pleasing their so-called talent instead of pleasing audiences, which is their basic function
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@DarakshanRaja
@AOC
But...what if she lied? As mounting evidence suggests? Then, as in the infamous Rolling Stone case, she hurts the cause. You don't see that?
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Something makes me skeptical of the before-and-afters in this program.
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@jesshardie
One time I was at a fair and someone handed me a warm slice of apple pie, and I thought, "Apple pie! What capitalist propaganda! Damn where do these colonizers get their nerve! And warm, no less, like the blood of indigenous Americans!!"
@TheLouPerez
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@olivertraldi
I think you’re being ironic, but this is of course a serious argument in some feminist circles.
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@emzanotti
Here is how I see it. One never knows what is actually the contents of a cup of liquid. I would assume it’s acid or some other corrosive/dangerous substance and respond accordingly. Let the courts adjudicate the results.
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@stillgray
No parenting, no rules, no enforcement of same, no consequences...in a society that increasingly celebrates outlier behavior.
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@wil_da_beast630
I wonder what the mood is among the esteemed black journos at
@nytimes
who got the Cotton op-ed killed (retroactively) and exerted other indue influence on Times content in the Floyd aftermath.
Hell, if even the Old Gray Lady is suddenly calling out the race-baiters...
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Huh?
Why was this nurse placed on leave from her job? Is it now a fireable offense for a white person to argue with a POC? Or to cry "white woman's tears"? I listened to the vid and did not hear racist utterances. If I'm wrong I await correction
#Comrie
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1 of 2 striking lines in this
@HeatherEHeying
essay:
"Part of what worries me so deeply about the Grievance Studies 'scholars' is that they, too, have students, and I doubt very much that open inquiry, or encouragement of disagreement, are on the syllabus"
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The best line I’ve ever heard about the forced introduction of DEI- or CRT-inflected related elements into academic topics
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@CaitlinPacific
No. Prosecuted crime is down. As notably in CA, "compassionate" DAs have simply defined away whole categories of so-called minor mischief and are even letting felons walk for gun crimes as long as said guns weren't used to kill someone. Retail theft is way up—but no one is jailed
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@brianstelter
@CNN
So when they voice a talking point you deem worthy of endorsement they're adults. But when there's blowback that puts them on the spot they're just kids?
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I am not a person of color, so I cannot claim to see life from that perspective. But I'm haunted by the notion that if I were a POC I'd feel utterly patronized by what's going on in media these days. Every couple in every ad is mixed-race, and even if the couple both appear...
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@CathyYoung63
@mattyglesias
Has to be Hxpanix, otherwise it starts with "his" and is therefore sexist.
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@ChrisCuomo
Don't even, man. What's the point? If you're "protesting" you can burn down businesses & police stations and paint or tag all kinds of slogans on public/private property and hardly anyone says boo. But "deface" a protest mural and ...hate crime?
I am so effing done with this.
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People who don't follow social sciences closely have no idea how the concept of "implicit bias" reshaped policy in academia, corporate America and everywhere else. Once again here--as with self-esteem-based education--the psychologists ran with the ball before having a grip on it
"Implicit bias" shaped so many policies. Now debunked by follow-up study after follow-up study.
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@MattRKay
Should teachers be involved in destabilizing anything? Shouldn't teachers just teach a subject? By what authority does a teacher seek to implant morality-based notions in a suggestible mind? I know students who oppose diversity for its own sake. Are they unwelcome in your class?
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@thehappydog_
Though it’s always too soon, 18 years is a long loving life. I’m glad you had your Sam for so many years and were with him at the end . What a sweet looking boy .
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@aliveness_ape
And everybody gets their undies bunched up over 96 shots. The perp fired first (a cop could’ve been killed right there); so then you neutralize him. How many free shots should the suspect have been allowed?
Why is this even controversial (other than race)?
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@AnnCoulter
This isn't like that. I supported Reagan 100% in that scenario. But now every last one of 'em should walk out. All 800,000, plus others in sympathy. The nation should grind to a halt. No secret service or DC cops. You don't screw with people's lives to win a pissing contest.
@CNN
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@seerutkchawla
Anything with the mildest overtones of "traditional values" is dismissed/derided as a right-wing talking point. We are at such a silly and convoluted point in social evolution, wherein outliers must be celebrated and the mainstream must be marginalized.
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@wil_da_beast630
But wait, it keeps getting better. A quote from a skeptical piece on
#LiaThomas
:
"It's definitely awkward because Lia still has male body parts and is still attracted to women," a teammate said.
Did you know this? I'm stunned. I assumed Lia had at least had the
#trans
surgery...
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@audraf637
@wendybdiary
As I've said before, both informally and in a piece I once wrote, when I was in 3rd and 4th grade we had a kid, Ralphie, who insisted he was a tree. He referred to his arms as branches, his legs as roots. We did not water him.
I hope he outgrew this.
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@xphilosopher
I teach journalism and try to be amoral. I stress that no given lens on a story is the “correct” one. We don’t know the ultimate truth here on earth (and we can’t count on there being a god). Also we don’t know the long-term consequences even of events that seem plainly horrific
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I'm a bit late to the party, but I couldn't let this go unmentioned. So now, to all the gaseous, incestuous, over-intellectualized Grievance Studies curricula we add this nonsense, an excuse for feminist academics to conduct faux research by
@HPluckrose
@clairlemon
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@DashDobrofsky
What should the pushback be on a matter of opinion? I would’ve expected pushback when Kamala recycled “good people” and “bloodbath,” both of which have been discredited.
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I’m curious about something, guys (and I’m seeking feedback specifically from men, though women are welcome to weigh in). Which do we prefer for a night of fun and frivolity? Can I really be alone in picking the model at left?
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What laypeople don't realize: Trump can wish for CNN to burn to the ground and though it's a reprehensible thing to say, it's *not disqualifying for the job*. Partisans often hold newspeople in contempt. But if CNN visibly holds Trump in contempt, it's disqualifying for the job.
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@Bakari_Sellers
The man,
@AndrewYang
, didn't even say anything that specific. He said Obama broke his heart. The mere concept of Obama breaking someone's heart is bullshit? He sure broke mine by mismanaging the national dialog on race. He was uniquely positioned to assay a fix. Instead he punted
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@_BarringtonII
We are taking normal people (especially children) and forcing them to focus on/wallow in their frailties. We are building the opposite of resilience and self-confidence.
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@GadSaad
Occasionally one encounters someone who actually has the words "public intellectual" in his/her bio or profile. Always tickles me. One does not get to anoint one's self an intellectual.
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@Timcast
This is why I tweeted earlier my fears of a Democratic sweep. Biden is just a figurehead but the real party will crush dissent and metaphorically gulag wrongthinkers. The academic-tech juggernaut has moved out of its containment area and into society at large.
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Dems who see Walz as a congenial Uncle Fred: He's an avuncular-looking Trojan horse who has an agenda and will not brook dissent.
See what's happening in the UK? Calls to arrest
@elonmusk
for permitting "hate speech" on X?
The genius of America is its tolerance of unpopular ideas
Tim Walz says free speech does not apply to misinformation.
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@ChrisCuomo
Arguably the most bizarre thing I've seen in my lifetime, Chris. Have you ever seen Trump so soft-spoken and deferential? Like a middle manager who wants to look good in front of The Boss? I guess we should call him The Apprentice now.
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@gpmominoh
@NateSilver538
So without dragging in additional context, are you saying that you willingly embraced a hermitic lifestyle because of this microbe? In exchange for not getting colds or the flu? Are you implying that America at large should stop going to restaurants, movies or sporting events?
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@walterkirn
Brooklyn-born writer here who finds himself retching at the superciliousness and phony inverse classism of a Tim Walz. Conspicuously absent from today’s speech: any mention of those upstanding heartlander types who grow up in a fine city like Minneapolis and then seek to burn it
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Read this ridiculous woman's (
@leahfinnegan
) ridiculous thoughts on Katie Roiphe & journalism. Apparently if something opposes the feminist agenda, it is by definition bad. Facts & logic are irrelevant. All that matter is: does it further feminism or not?
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Sigh. Will someone in this damn country please accumulate some general knowledge before adulthood? Tapper has to explain this to people?
PSA: A synagogue being “conservative” is not a statement about the political beliefs of its members. Conservatism is a denomination within Judaism akin to Reform, Orthodox, Reconstructionist. It has Zero to do with how one feels about the GOP or Trump or whatever.
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@thomaschattwill
"Fellow organisms, in the event of a water landing, those of you who are not soluble may use your seat cushions as a flotation device..."
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Many of you know that Twitter nixed
@Quillette
for a bluecheck. I ask you to read this bio of founder
@clairlemon
. Granted it ain't Encyclopedia Britannica but can you imagine anyone officially profiling notable women of the Left--
@KatrinaNation
,
@Arianahuffingto
--with such bile?
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@BridgetPhetasy
I don’t care if it meant voting against my own interests, I don’t see how I could ever pull the lever for anyone who talked free college for everyone and/or free money for everyone and/or slavery reparations. I’d vote for Jeff Dahmer first.
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@brianstelter
@ScottAdamsSays
Making the huge assumption that you are being sincere here, I do not understand how you look at
@CNN
and fail to see worse sins against
#journalism
than one sees on Fox. Is there nothing to critique about the home team? Do you ever watch Don? Or Erin?
You'd win some new viewers
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@wil_da_beast630
For a couple years there we succumbed to a mass hysteria in which we let ourselves be persuaded that America as a nation knelt on the neck of George Floyd—and every other black American as well.
The irony: it was our fundamental goodness that made us vulnerable.
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In honor of my Mom and Dad and their Mom and Dad. Sorry about all the profanity.
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“None of the characters walk the street anymore.” So because a family claims a racial slight, and followed up with a $25 mill lawsuit, one of the most entertaining aspects of the park must go. We’re enshrining this paranoia in daily life.
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@tylerrrr0711
@stillgray
There may be some truth to that. But that was a fairly savage beating. The victim looked pretty defenseless. Did that look like a fight (two combatants) caught in the middle rounds? Or a one-way best-down? And the n-word is irrelevant. I’ll check it out. .
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So we destroyed Andrew Cuomo's life over nasty gossip that prosecutors found unworthy of pursuing. But
#DeshaunWatson
will miss a few weeks then resume his $230 million career, despite dozens of allegations, lawsuits & even formal complaints.
@ChrisCuomo
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@gborchard1969
@AliMCollins
This is the most archly comical aspect of the
#woke
left: They hold up to (alleged) ridicule statements and ideas that are perfectly reasonable to anyone with a functioning cerebrum and basic sense of fair play.
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Every father’s dream is to have your son on a billboard in Las Vegas. I can now feel fulfilled in life
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@thomaschattwill
Have you faced violent death, Thomas? (I have)
You think that, with his heart pumping at ski-slalom rates, adrenalin coursing through his system, and blood streaming down his face, Trump thought "I'm gonna stand up and be Russell Crowe in Gladiator"? Come on, man. Be fair.
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@antihero_kate
I don’t know where people get the idea that all political conservatives earn upwards of $276,000 a year. That is not at all the reality of the situation. For many people it’s about protecting ideals, not sheltering income.
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Not the best way to start a semester. A female student pointed out an error in my online lesson plan. I meant to email back, "I need someone like you to keep me on top of things," but instead dashed off, "I need someone like you to keep on top of me."
Sigh. I'm on my way, HR--
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@clairlemon
@CHSommers
"What the hell is going on" is a peevish, ultimately juvenile aversion to *any* knowledge that challenges one's a priori worldview. Moderation and sensibility are out of vogue.
@CHSommers
is and has long been one of the thought leaders of our era. Such treatment is indefensible.
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@JackPosobiec
@BarrettWilson6
How 'bout this fellow, shot in the head during a
#BLM
rally? Months and months ago. Do you know his name? Was it off-message somehow for the
#media
to follow his story? Champion his cause? Funny how differently we see cops based on who shot 'em, eh?
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@EndWokeness
Even in this clip, Joe is looking at his wife as if he's not quite sure who she is. Probably thinking, "what a nice lady."
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@JoshMankiewicz
Among other things U.S. passengers would be pausing to snap selfies with someone on fire in the background.
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@seerutkchawla
I disagree for two reasons.
1, in too many cases I've seen, it isn't just taught; it's implemented. It results in a segregated classroom that's oppressive to white kids.
2, gradeschool kids are too young to comprehend nuance. They take away unfortunate, stark messages
#CRT
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@peterjhasson
@CHSommers
This is what happens when you have ideologues who see their movement as a religious crusade, and take a scorched-earth approach to ensuring "compliance." They don't give a damn who gets hurt, and there's nothing even resembling contrition when they're wrong. Right
@KirstenPowers
?
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Driving through TX while researching a book, I saw a herd of longhorns walking a fence-line. One of the most majestic sights ever: the American West in microcosm. I stopped, watched. An estimated 1200 purebreds remain in US. 1200. What a loss that would be
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@thomaschattwill
Bernie Goldberg explained this in “Bias.” It’s because they don’t see liberalism as a political position; they see it as simply the way intelligent, empathetic fully evolved people see life, Ergo conservatism to them is ipso facto a defect one should not find in normal adults.
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If you are fully/completely convinced that you are right about a moral position, re politics or society or anything else, can you also believe that you may well be wrong and people with opposing views are right?
That is the only proper way for humans to think.
Is it possible?
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@clairlemon
You did not grow up here, Claire, right? Nonetheless, you may know that there are increasing hordes who literally hate success and those who seem to be reaping it. To them, all success is suspect. It's an insult to the failures.
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@SwipeWright
Speaking of shifting ground, is it not thoroughly bizarre that “boys are boys and girls are girls” is now a political statement? In this as in so many other themes I do not see myself as having abandoned my erstwhile party; I see it as my erstwhile party having abandoned sanity.
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I’ve been on Twitter since 2008 and I have never, EVER gone to where I’m going today, but I’m in a mood. My grandparents emigrated from Italy with nothing and were called fucking wops for much of their early lives here.
@PeterMDavies80
@TheRocsWorld
@KralcTrebor
@ChrisCuomo
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