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Sociologist of Disasters. Critical urban theory. Optimism of the will, Pessimism of the Intellect. Roll Tide. @ShruggedAtticus
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Joe Rogan: I just love freedom
Ron DeSantis: Professors should have to submit their political beliefs to the governor's office for scrutiny.
Joe Rogan: That's what I'm talking about!
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I can't stand Joe Rogan. I have also spent more time in combat sports gyms over the last decade than most any of you who are reading this and I can say- He is insanely influential amongst people who need to be pulled back from right-wing politics Right Now.
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Not only in the X-Axis backwards- the survey of people's opinions, not actual crime BUT also: The units are irregular. April to June= 3 months. June to March is 10 months. Someone sat down and designed this to lie to you in multiple ways.
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Here is one thing I can tell you about a lot of the guys who listen to Rogan- They aren't right-wingers- they are alienated from politics. They are very much looking for people to explain their situation and the Left has not yet cultivated a means by which to do that broadly.
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I think that Joe Rogan has been a gigantic negative on people- especially men- in my peer group. However- the mainstream Democrats that everyone accepts on TV all the time have views that are just as despicable and we allow them to have careers peddling war and austerity.
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Don't let it be lost on you that this is the section of I-10 that was built over the top of a vibrant black neighborhood.
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I'm gonna let you finish- Rogan's audience is a lot more diverse in terms of race and sexuality then you would think. I know openly bi men who listen to his show and plenty of Latinx and African-Americans who do so to. They aren't Trump people, they just think politics are dumb.
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Man, if I would have known more than 5-10 people in New Orleans were going to read this, I would have written it better. Instead I went out drinking with the office staff from work.
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My wife and I had a conversation about how to talk about what is going on in America with people in Japan--Because Japanese news is doing a terrible job-- our conclusion: It's really hard. Part of the problem is Japanese TV generally treating every black person as comedy.
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@Alyssa_Milano
Hey. It's cool. I'm toxic. I want Medicare For All so that poor and working class (like me) people don't suffer and die. Sorry.
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As I was saying:
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"I'm gonna have a fitness showdown with gay guys"
probably not a brilliant tactic by the fash.
Evergreen Active Club and Rose City Nationalists made a paltry showing at Lewis County Pride last weekend, and were clowned out of town by the locals.
In this first video, you can see one of the EAC nazis being brutally murdered by a Pride attendee as the crowd cheers.
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The belief that poor people are there to grovel to you permeates too much of charity. If you think it is poor people's job to make you feel good, go do something else
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One of the frustrating things about the kind of DEI letters universities want now, is that you can't say any of the actual anti-racist stuff you have been involved in, you have to come up with university approved stuff.
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The ruling class will always tell you that if only you had asked a little nicer, they might have listened.
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I was teaching a class and a kid pulled a knife on me. I managed to talk him down while keeping a game running for the rest of the class so that they didn't get out of control. That was one thing on one day. I made $25,000 a year and got laid off that summer-as usual.
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@MartelAndrew
Quick question- Since I am getting some responses like this, are people reading what I wrote and thinking that the point is that I think Joe Rogan himself is 'right-wing'? Because that is clearly not what I am saying.
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@MattWalshBlog
Really? Let me introduce you to almost every fire in a historical structure ever.
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Here is Mike Ditka in 1965. He had 36 receptions for 454 yards.
My dad was in Vietnam though, so he couldn't watch Mike play football.
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@DreaAndrea38
Imagine having never heard of Black Thought until today and then wanting to have a take on hip-hop.
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Hey, look, it's disaster recovery as a tool for entrenching neoliberalism. Wow.
LATEST: Gov. Tate Reeves says "privatization is on the table" for the Jackson water system as the State considers long-term solutions beyond the immediate crisis.
He says water pressured is restored, but "there may be more bad days in the future."
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@shadesofoffside
Considering the young lady is named 'Praline Hebert' and wants a generator to listen to her Wayne Toups CDs, I am assuming that this is satire.
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I say this as a Tulane graduate and former instructor: If your first stop in New Orleans is Tulane we should question what you are selling .
Great to be in New Orleans today. First stop: chatting with students at
@Tulane
!
@TheMandyMoore
and I were inspired by your stories, your support of
@PeteButtigieg
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It really gets on my nerves, depicting people in Japan as stoic rule followers. It robs people of agency and covers over heroic stories like the volunteer fire department in Futaba, Fukushima ripping the door off and taking the fire engine when the power went out on 3.11.
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The issue is that most media heads can picture themselves paying $250,000 to get sunk in a carbon fiber coffin to stare at the Titanic, but they can't imagine themselves as refugees having to be packed onto a rickety ship.
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All of these "I went to Japan and it was clean" posts sound basically like "I went on vacation in Jamaica and everyone was happy and playing reggae music." It's not that you didn't see that, it is that you had a very limited experience and generalized based on it.
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@RepMattGaetz
Matt, you were born into a family that had hundreds of millions of dollars, a beach house in Seaside, and a dad who was on the school board while you were in school......
Privilege is the only reason you are in Congress
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Look, if you haven't been in New Orleans fighting for New Orleans then no one in New Orleans gives a shit what you have to say about New Orleans.
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Your periodic reminder that James Carville lives in a giant mansion way Uptown, sent his kids to the most expensive private school in New Orleans, and has never once, that I have seen, shown up for anything important in the city.
.
@JamesCarville
on
@NewsHour
: “What went wrong was stupid wokeness.” Some Democrats need to “go to a wokeness detox center.”
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“I got news for you, you’re hurting the party and hurting the very people you’re trying to help.”
#VAGOV
#NJElection
#2021MunicipalElections
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@bxsel
For real. This is every guy from my high school that kinda skated but also hung out with the rednecks and then got somebody pregnant and went to Iraq. I can probably hook you up with that guy.
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I'm probably stepping in it- But most of the people with power at universities have been ambitious cowards for their whole lives and so they understand 'confronting' racism through that same lens. 'How do we passive-aggressively deal with a problem that we owe our careers to?"
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My radical anti-looting protocols: Have the government buy up all of the stock of local convenience and grocery stores at face value. Move it out into the parking lot. Pass it out. There, you're done.
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@TheEconomist
Those 'losses' were deliberately foisted on the USPS to draw headlines like this.
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Funny how they never just want to talk to teachers.
New York will work with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a blueprint to “reimagine education” in the COVID-19 era.
"Let's start talking about really revolutionizing education," NY Gov. Cuomo says
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"I've been throwing Nazis out of punk shows since I was 15, and I tried to get the cops tossed off your campus" isn't what they are looking for.
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Honest question: Rich people who loved Parasite, what was the movie about?
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I like the Scandinavian cop shows because they will be like "We have to get this kid out of this absolute hell on earth" and then they will show the best apartment in the nicest neighborhood I have ever lived in.
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Kyoto announced that they will start school as planned on Wednesday but keep the 3 密s . My son's 3rd grade class has 33 kids and one teacher.
They request that when singing in music class, they maintain social distancing and not sing towards each other. They are 8 year-olds.
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If you talk about racism in Japan--You will soon get overrun by
A)White guys who want to explain why they never see racism
B) Japanese right-wingers
It says where I work on the bio. Roll up. I'm easy to find.
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Remember when the Cuban army was fighting South African forces in Angola while the US didn't lift a finger to stop Apartheid?
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It's weird how "I visited Japan once and here are my massive generalizations" is such a popular genre whereas "I have lived in Japan for a long time and here are some things that I struggle with" is so frowned upon.
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So you end up with a system in which "I have a long track record of physically confronting racists" receives a lot less weight than "I took a training course on how to feel (remotely) culpable."
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@mattgaetz
Spoiler Alert: Ask someone from Okaloosa County how Matt actually "served in public office."
(Hint- It was his dad)
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@ph_pleb
@HayekAndKeynes
I went to a tourist area and they were getting it ready for tourists like me.... amazing.
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@mattgaetz
You might notice that Matt never engages with his constituents on here. There is a reason for that. The FL1 is a complete scam district that a corpse with an R next to their name could win at this point.
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These people have never been to an aquarium with Japanese people.
Chef Gordon Ramsay is facing backlash on TikTok after posting a video in which he appeared to select a lamb to slaughter for a meal, rubbing his hands together while repeatedly saying "yummy."
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Again: Capitalism is so dumb we have to freeze the melting tundra to keep drilling in it
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Well, I finally got my UK visa so:
I have accepted a position as a Permanent Lecturer (roughly TT assistant professor) in the Department of Geography and Geology at Edge Hill University in the UK.
Kind of crazy, but I am looking forward to it.
よろしくお願いします
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@bariweiss
Most people leave their jobs as professors because they are contingent faculty. Weird that y'all never seem to get upset about that.
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I don't think people are thinking through the level of trauma that is about to exist. This is beyond anything we have dealt with. Things aren't going to go back to normal.
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The funny thing when these chan or R/japancj guys say "if you don't like it go home" Is that I am literally paid by the Japanese government to write about Japanese society with a critical eye.
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This isn't a fluke and it doesn't just go away. I hope people get that.
Excessive heat is worsening droughts across the western U.S., with record temperatures affecting more than 40 million people,
@WeatherProf
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The level of disposable income it requires to be a gun nut is staggering.
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@EricMelting
@KillerMartinis
@AlbertoThomas
@LauraLoomer
@jptheproduct
@oc412
I'm pretty sure someone flooded my yard!
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Tim Kerner, Jean Lafitte mayor, says that Barataria Bridge was struck by a ship and is currently out. "I've never seen this much water." Waiting to send out recuse crews to get people off their roofs after the levee failure.
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Holy shit.
Do I even have to do research about this stuff anymore?
They just said it! He just came out and said it!
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@megynkelly
I wonder if all of the kids who didn't really die in Sandy Hook will find it 'riveting.'? Unconscionable.
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I know people want to believe tons of upbeat stuff about Japan. I love Japan too. But I also worked in Japanese public schools for 10 years. It isn't all like this.
In Japan, kids can run errands and commute to school alone at a young age. Why? Because Japan has decided that children in Japan are the collective responsibility of society to keep safe. That’s the choice Japan has made. What choice has AMERICA made?
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@joncoopertweets
Dude, I'm 43 and I have been hearing that line all my life. Never works out that way.
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If you are raving about any TV show made in Japan, there is one little fact that you should now: Every show, and I do mean every show, is heavily, heavily scripted and structured. Yes, even the cute ones where people just walk around. Ask anybody who has worked on one.
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When I think of aging gracefully, I definitely think of Joe Rogan.
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@ByYourLogic
"Your dad was OJ's lawyer, but mine was just the head of an English department.
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I keep highlighting this. It's a big deal. If work from home becomes normal, Japan changes fundamentally.
*I'll move to Tanegashima and pay that $100 a month rent.
Empty offices growing in Tokyo as virus gives tenants pause
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I hate to break it to Drew Brees, but around the world, pretty much everybody's grandad was in the army.
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Drinking with Kyoto people: "They aren't a great family. They went in against Oda Nobunaga, but they still have lots of land over by Heian Jingu."
This town has a long memory.
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@aubrey_huff
@realDonaldTrump
Running the stats---Wait, by god, it checks out: Most eligible voters own boats.
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Probably a good idea to talk to people who lived in those buildings
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@HayekAndKeynes
I would have to choose between the dozens to hundreds of stories I could tell you about each of these things in Japan.
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*everyone who works for a living has a million different stories like this. Billionaires think listening to 10 managers give them ideas and the choosing one of them is like winning Mr. Olympia or some shit.
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Ben Shapiro is the G.G. Allin of politics. He thinks he is pushing boundaries but is really just taking a shit on stage and rolling around in it.
Ben Shapiro: "Joe Biden is the Kurt Cobain of politics. He put a shotgun in the mouth of the American body politic and then pulled the trigger. And the brains are on the wall"
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Quick note from a disaster researcher: 'Looting' is a loaded and generally racist term used to describe so broad an array of behaviors as to be almost useless.
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Well, if everyone is talking about Val Kilmer being awesome....May I suggest Real Genius
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dude's late onset posh accent is one of the funniest sub-stories in the wide world of fascism.
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Our kid won his grade's essay contest writing about how being the only Asian kid in a majority Black school in New Orleans made him a supporter of Black Lives Matter in Japan- out of solidarity with his friends in New Orleans. We are very proud.
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I'm from Florida by way of New Orleans- my whole life has been watching rich people wreck stuff that normal people used to be able to enjoy. It's what they do.
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