This is exactly right.
Why do they all talk about bland restaurant chains changing logos like they're Winston Churchill standing before Parliament in May 1940? It's a little unbecoming.
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"I even gave my life to Christ in a Cracker Barrel parking lot" is an Action Bronson line
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all we have to do as a society is come together and instead of saying 'this person is peculiar and eccentric and therefore must be intelligent in ways we cannot know' we just need to just casually dismiss incredibly creepy behavior like this for what it is
This feels like a threat
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Why are 90% of op-eds scolding liberals for the way they talk about threats to democracy rather than scolding conservatives for threatening democracy
What in gods name is this
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Academics are such an easy target if you want to criticize a group perceived as high status and with a lot of influence, to boost your own credibility.
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The greatest advantage of Trumpists is that can say whatever they want (no matter how false, racist, inconsistent, or nonsensical) and suffer absolutely no consequences. You don't have to understand any issues or reality - you just make up shit and sound confident about it.
JD Vance: "As we've kicked illegal aliens out of our country, you actually see housing costs start to level off."
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The worst people have power in this country right now. It’s so distressing.
The tone of this video is completely wild. It's filmed like a high school media class project. It looks like it too; the presentation and graphics are amateurish. And yet it's chilling, because she's a real government spokesperson dismissing reports of abuses in detention with finger quotes.
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🥂!!!
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As of today it's a Real Object.
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If Democratic politicians do not fight this because it's a "distraction," it will simply happen. They need to get in front of every mic and say that we will not allow Trump to destroy American history. He wants a culture war? GIVE HIM ONE. There are no distractions. Have every fight.
