Poli Sci Chick

I’ll have to check that out. Thanks for the recommendation!

First of all, even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Secondly, I don’t think that applies here.

RFK Jr. isn’t right about some things— he *was* right about 1 thing a long time ago; & that’s environmental protection.

See: Clean Water Act enforcement, NRDC support, NYC Watershed agreement, etc.

& YouTube’s algorithm over the past 8-10 years accelerated the spread’s scope & intensity.

Flat earth’s often a gateway conspiracy to more insidious ones: 9/11, QAnon, COVID— and, yes, anti-vax.

While anti-vax poses an immediate threat, we also can’t ignore what kickstarts the pipeline.

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While I understand what you mean when you say flat earth isn’t hurting anyone, that would have been a more accurate opinion 20+ years ago.

It used to just be a zany idea that a few people had, like the moon landing being faked, but the internet changed that

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What does that mean, “the ideology that you believe in”?

Ideologies are connected to agendas. What is the agenda in allowing trans people to exist?

There isn’t any.

I can, however, think of multiple agendas for denying their existence.

I’m assuming this is a joke? In which case, it’s funny (no sarcasm) but the conversations in the thread below tells me it was meant in seriousness, in which case, there’s an interesting discussion to be had.

Don’t Look Up was apparently a documentary.

I am tired of Russia’s bs.

When I say tired, I mean, I feel the weight of generations of tired.

First time I’m coming across your account but hey, I’ll stew with you.

It’s fucked up but not surprising.
Walz is a centrist. He’s also an old school Democrat.

Not the best combination when you’re going up against fascism.

They’re not fine with it.

They act like they’re fine with it because:

1. They know it’s just a thought experiment and there is no real risk on their part.

and/or

2. They see it as simply deferred payment and they’ll collect it at the end.

Of course it is— the picture you’re showing us right here is flat. If the world isn’t flat, then how do you explain maps? 😔

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Something important to remember is that when we talk about protecting sex workers, we don't just mean from sexual predators or serial killers.

There are several ways sex workers can experience violence.

Here's a few of them:

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."

Arthur C. Clarke

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Good take by a couple of my kid’s classmates in the elementary school newspaper

Really is a false advertising lawsuit waiting to happen.

ABC never, ever should have settled that Trump lawsuit.

All they succeeded in doing was showing him that they’ll be willing to pay to make a headache go away.

Now that Trump’s team knows that for certain, now they know they can do it going forward.

This lawsuit was a proving ground.

Oh, hell.

I’m so tired.

Look, I don’t want to be *that* person & I *do* think this is worth doing—

However—

A Constitution is simply a piece of paper that we choose to imbue with power. It only works because we all agree it does.

There’s evidence to suggest that the upcoming Administration does not feel the same way.

Look, I don’t want to be *that* person & I do think this is worth doing—

However—

A Constitution is simply a piece of paper that we choose to imbue with power. It only works because we all agree it does.

There’s evidence to suggest that the upcoming Administration does not feel the same way.

Well, not with *that* attitude 🙄

a man and a woman are standing next to each other . Alt: Scene from Will & Grace in which Karen is pretending to slap Jack.

I believe the legal jargon goes something like:

Boom! You’ve just been SLAPP’ed 😎

More back than that.

The Southern Strategy was being used in the 1960s.

It never stopped. They just got better at hiding it.

Bannon uses the phrase “Nationalist” here. For the uninitiated, he doesn’t mean someone who takes pride in their country a.k.a nationalism. He means someone who takes pride in being white, as in “white nationalist”.

Supremacists.
Neo-Nazis.
The Klan.

And he said this at a young Republican event.

Democrats, this is, in part, why you lost the election. I’ve seen less than a handful of takes from high level Dems since Thompson’s death that actually seem connected to the electorate.

It’s been 13 days since he was killed. Surely you’ve had enough time to read the room.

So if you *own* the newspaper, you get a hotline but if you *work* for said newspaper, you’re SOL?

I wonder how much the people they staff it with will be making.

Post your drafts.

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And according to Benjamin Franklin, it should be a turkey anyway!

You’ve been a senator for the past 17 years. You’re a former Presidential hopeful. You have the ability to make shit happen that actually matters.

Because who really cares if the symbol of our nation is flying over us if the land it’s flying over has fallen to fascism?