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@liesandperfidy

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Medieval dirtbags, sports-related complications, socialism from below. Graduate of Viable Paradise 18, represented by Miriam Kriss of the Irene Goodman Agency.

Seattle, WA
Joined October 2010
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my political tradition is Marxist-Leguinist
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this would be a situation where an actual left-wing party would be coordinating with unions to mobilize demonstrations and work stoppages and prep for a real strike, because that's how you apply political pressure when you have a popular majority
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call him James “Boeing” Harden because he put up 7/4/7 and he’s fucking killing everyone around him
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Dillon Brooks channels his inner "Stone Cold" Steve Austin ahead of the matchup vs. the Lakers 👀
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lots of people are making fun of @jack but i think it's inspiring that he created a website that hundreds of millions of people use just to tell him he fucking sucks. truly one of a kind
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a good way to understand American foreign policy is that Jimmy Carter, probably the most decent and compassionate person to ever be President of the United States, started the policy of US support for the military dictatorship of El Salvador
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My guy Chris really wants to die on this hill, which makes sense because dying on a stupid hill for no reason was Robert E Lee’s favorite thing
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Sen. Chris McDaniel
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In light of all the political correctness and leftist hysteria, I’m curious about what you think: How should Robert E. Lee be remembered?
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prediction: national guard will deploy, there will be a few deaths, and congress will pass a bunch of emergency anti-protest measures that will soon be used to jail hundreds of thousands of young Black people
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“if you legalize weed we’ll have to kill all these dogs” -a genuine police argument
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reuben (legally back on bullshit)
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“I am at a charter school, have no union, and cannot leave” is what they want all teachers to experience
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jesus
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reuben (legally back on bullshit)
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the Bucks' best player grew up in profound poverty in an austerity-riddled country as an undocumented immigrant, you opportunistic ghoul
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Scott Walker
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Since the @Bucks are in the #NBAPlayoffs tonight, we made a special hat to give to the @POTUS . #MAGA
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the Democrats, however, are the left flank of capital, and to do such a thing would be unthinkable. you can think of them as a controlled opposition if you want - i think they're a capitalist party with genuine disagreements with the other one, but it works out the same
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VAN GUNDY: And if you want to fire a coach, he should get to shoot you first! One bullet, right in the middle of the street! And if you die, so what?! JACKSON: That's right. Like I always say, you cannot expect the wombat to change his bill. BREEN: Wiggins misses off back iron,
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this is not really a comment on Jimmy Carter personally so much as a reminder of what, exactly, it is the job of the President of the United States to do
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i'm not trying to be a doomer, i just think it's important to understand that the things that can actually affect change here are things that the Democratic Party is constitutionally incapable of doing. they can't meet these moments because that's not what they're for.
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nobody is coming to save us but us.
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when presented with an opportunity to discuss whether this well-funded, multi-generational, divinely sanctioned plan by fascist freaks was actually enabled by the choices of individual voters in 2016, i politely encourage that you simply do not engage with this concept
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this really is the apotheosis of their rivalry. CP3 is doing Steph's own taunt with serial-killer intensity, pure loathing in his eyes, and Steph is just jogging off like "lol good one bro." then Steph won the series.
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reuben (legally back on bullshit)
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sounds like a good case for uhhhh not doing a depraved racist drug war which apparently requires training a bunch of dogs into antisocial aggressive behavior cued by common scents but that’s just me
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seattle police are filling residential streets with tear gas in the middle of a fucking respiratory pandemic.
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Look at this fucking shit. Omg. Hundreds of people in the streets, and thousands in their homes.
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reuben (legally back on bullshit)
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@chadfelixg you should take that up with the people wearing swastikas because they are completely dedicated to preventing that
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@RamonVillalobos hear me out: what if a big titty gun gf, was sad???
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I am genuinely sorry for all my friends who backed Warren and believe in her policies and governance. This should have been a two-person race between her and Sanders, the only serious candidates willing to admit this country is bone-deep fucked-up.
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reuben (legally back on bullshit)
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since this is blowing up, the human cost of the drug war far outstrips some heckin puppers being done a euthanasia - but IMO this is pretty illustrative of how the American carceral system is just built on suffering and misery all the way down
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a perfect response, right down to being broadly aware of barstool’s whole deal but not caring enough to get their name right
@linzsports
Lindsay Gibbs
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Here's the video and transcript: "If you consider yourself a woman and you want to play sports or vice versa, you should be able to play." "Now the barnstormer people are going to flood my timeline and be a distraction to me ... and I'm okay with that. I really am."
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how to show in one news tweet why police reform based on adding new policies and regulations is pointless
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Erica C. Barnett ericacbarnett on all platforms
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The 30-day ban on tear gas, Herbold points out, had an exemption saying that Police Chief Carmen Best can order it, which she says is apparently what happened last night.
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preposterous
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ABC should have kept the show going and killed off her character and just made it a show about a family gradually healing the generational damage caused by their dead racist relative
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@jessesingal i know, right? i can't believe they're not putting your name on this bill! after all your hard work
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Hunter Pence is promoting a tree-planting nonprofit and talking about the climate, which by baseball player standards puts him somewhere to the left of Assata Shakur
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. @billromanowski hey remember when you assaulted your own teammate and crushed his eye socket and ended his career
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@EoinHiggins_ dude he tweeted it TWICE lmao
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suddenly, your party is surprised by [DM rolls on random encounter chart] between 30 and 50 feral hogs
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Robin Williams
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The Lucky Heron 🌍
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Which famous person, that you hadn't known personally, did you feel most grief for when they died?
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Mostly this is just hilariously shameless cop agitprop
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DALE: - after you splice the gas line in, you shut the door and wait. No one will ever know. HANK: Dale, it’s a damn baby! BOOMHAUER: whachoo talmbout, kill em dangol baby Hitler, ain’t make no sense. dangol, terialconditions ain’t gon change, counta you kill dangol baby.
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joe wasn't the victim, he was the subject. the victim is everyone who saw it and briefly believed it before having their hopes dashed
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New York Post
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Joe Rogan subject of yet another Twitter death hoax
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kevin durant was unable to force a change in his circumstances but he was at least able to make a bunch of other people as stressed out and unhappy as he is. once again, the only truly relatable superstar
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andre iguodala running the bench unit
@LetThemWrestle
Let Them Wrestle
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I’m hurt and I’m old and I’m fuckin tired and I work with fuckin children
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as far as i am concerned every tweet from @JortsTheCat is dictated verbatim by Jorts to an opposable-thumbed assistant who operates his twitter account. there might be other explanations but i do not wish to become aware of them
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Shorter NYT: “don’t worry, the slowly dying rage grandpa in the White House is supported by an entrenched bureaucracy that, while personally despising him, tirelessly works to execute all the parts of his agenda that aren’t immediate nuclear warfare“
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@sreekyshooter scrolling the mouse wheel to sort through his full inventory of slurs before picking the right one
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tommy la stella’s numbers don’t look great, but as the giants second baseman he is the natural heir to the powerful demonic spirit that has favored this team for over a decade
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i am a million miles away from any sort of expertise in rap beefs but I feel like when you are calling a man a pedophile in a verse addressed to his mom and there are still three minutes left on the track, you have left him with very few honorable options
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the new york times is on some real "we have both types of music, country AND western" shit these days
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@bungarsargon @IlhanMN you're really embarrassing!
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I say this as a lifelong Giants fan: the outcome every neutral party should root for is SF blowing a 3-1 WS lead to Cleveland.
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"you need to focus on your studies, maybe major in business. these games will never help you in the real world!" ME:
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one of the greatest finals players in history but 11 journalists looking for a story and 1 overcaffeinated Australian have fooled you for years
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Steph Finals career: 26.8 PPG 5.7 RPG 6.1 APG 59.1 TS% He is 1 of 3 players ever averaging 25/5/5 on 55 TS% in the Finals. The others are LeBron and Jordan.
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weird how our country’s primary deciders of who goes to jail and who gets rich are all rich people who, it turns out, should be in jail. we should look into that
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the main reason to be upset is if you're learning, like me, that the perfect fit exists but you cannot pull it off without being an insanely jacked cowboy
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support for the neo-confederate jeff sessions should be a disqualification from a career in government, law, or anything with an ethics code
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when you work for the cops/and it's unclear you've stopped/that's fetonte
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@MaraWilson "book a fake event and then cry censorship when it's cancelled" is the most on-brand con imaginable for these dipshits
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@MaraWilson "I came to this party with one anecdote and BY GOD I am using it" is a demon all men must one day learn to conquer
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this is a pro Jorts account. haters will be blocked
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Am I the Asshole?
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AITA for “perpetuating ethnic stereotypes” about Jorts?
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the inevitable dipshit take about Baen's Bar is that free speech is being infringed upon. Baen Books has every right to operate a platform for fascist fanfic about murdering their enemies. what they don't have is a right to demand we all pretend it isn't there
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it rules that the people who own baseball teams are way more invested in destroying the players' union than they are in continuing to make a shitload of money by just putting up their feet and writing checks
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among the many types of brain damage Twitter has given me is a completely skewed picture of the median Philly sports fan, who is probably not actually a slightly overdramatic gay socialist
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Welcome to Twitter. Here is your copy of the Communist Manifesto and your timeline is automatically 50 percent Philly sports fans for some reason.
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it's never "just" transphobia (though it'd certainly be bad enough if it was)
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@JonHeyman @manderson92 @OldTakesExposed bad bad response Jon, just say “whoops I did not know he held a bunch of incredibly hateful views”
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@Brandon_Warne
Brandon Warne
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For your Christmas wish, you get one MLB player to have stayed healthy for their entire career. Who are you picking?
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it’s so cool that I have to loathe the greatest baseball player alive and root for his downfall
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Jung Hoo Lee is simultaneously Pablo Sandoval and the exact opposite of Pablo Sandoval
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@BrandyLJensen we're very dedicated to worldbuilding
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@jack take a critical look at why your staff suspends people for telling Nazis to fuck off
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@banalplay not content with my entire politics being subordinate to a complex patchwork of twitter beefs, i have decided to do the same thing to my gender
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@wilw man, please don't sic your followers on a Muslim woman activist. You should know better than to fall back on "not all white ppl" shit.
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it’s very cool how every couple years a perfectly acceptable major league team is like “we would like to send our best players to the Dodgers. it’s fine, we don’t need them.”
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WEEPING EIGHT YEAR OLD: please, I’m so scared of the world ending SENATOR: *rolling eyes* oh, another purity test. real nice. which one of you dumbasses put this joker on my schedule
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bro we had slaves
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When breaking THINGS is "an intolerable act of violence," but killing a human is "an unfortunate incident," what is there but resistance?
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Liz Bruenig is the Jesse Singal of forced birth, getting exactly what she wanted and then acting aghast
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one of the strangest legacies of the late-10s/early-20s American national conniption is the subset of people who venomously loathe Susan Sarandon. she fucking rocks
@BTnewsroom
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BREAKING: Actress @SusanSarandon has joined the Palestine solidarity activists rallying outside of Columbia University gates to share her message of solidarity with the students.
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@adamjohnsonNYC i used to think i missed Jon Stewart but turns out what I actually missed was being comfortable enough in my delusions to enjoy Jon Stewart
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farm-to-table, haute-cuisine celebrity chefs: employee abusers, sex creeps, general psychopaths guy fieri, who somehow makes every dish into a blooming onion: responsible employer, queer ally, community leader who flung his resources into disaster recovery
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@LizMair idiosyncratic bespoke racism that you can only get from a single storefront is still racism
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if Sanders declared today that he was running 3rd-party on a platform of healthcare reform and punching Anthony Weiner's balls he would win
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it is astounding how much more fun Mike Breen is to listen to when he's broadcasting next to Clyde and not two repeatedly-fired guys who hate the NBA but have a podcast about it
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buzzfeed: i saw chelsea manning and cassandra fairbanks at the weird mike event making horseshoe theory and i saw one of the horseshoes and the horseshoe looked at me
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i'm just a little bummed we might have to retire the "ah, nevertheless" post. it had a great run tho
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“ah, you see, your political program does not account for the fact that I’m a huge piece of shit, as are all my friends! explain THAT”
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even the warriors were like "what are you fucking talking about, draymond"
@ShamsCharania
Shams Charania
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The Warriors also partly didn't believe in Cousins' mutual interest at first. Agreement developed fairly quickly Monday -- after a few phone conversations -- with the reigning champions.
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Cool Dad Tim Kaine, folks
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look at trevor noah telling on himself. that's you, man! you're the one doing this! you're doing exactly the thing you said!
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@kathbarbadoro the three great threats facing the american left are the entrenched liberal establishment, the rising tide of fascism, and Podcast Brain
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max boot, jennifer rubin, ana navarro, bill kristol, and erick erickson coming together to form the great anti-communist Voltron, which takes three steps, trips on a banana peel and ends up shoving its own head up its robot ass
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thinkin about going jazz twitter and inventing new stats for Steph. "gravity assists." "points from fear." "panic turnovers."
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can’t wait for when Scherzer’s pitch count hits 130 tomorrow and Dave Martinez has to get the big tranq gun from Jurassic World
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Roy Oswalt: pro-pegging
@royoswalt44net
Roy Oswalt
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Let the guys play! Quit coming up with stupid rules like no spitting! If you are scared stay home. If you are not,strap it on! #mlb
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@MaraWilson the social media era is destroying Traditional Marriage because nobody wants to have to change their login info on 300 apps
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“Havana Syndrome” would actually be a pretty good name for the set of delusions that compels these natsec freaks to do everything in their power to keep fighting the Cold War, regardless of whether the other side shows up
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@JortsTheCat how was the birria, comrade
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Hey so I asked Kat to marry me and she said yes, and she still hasn’t come to her senses. Myself, I might never come to my senses.
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@chitribopinions everyone involved in producing this should be afraid to show their faces in public
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i believe the DNC is sincerely doing their best to recruit undecided voters, but it's the group of "undecided voters" that people in the DNC talk to - insurance lobbyists, rehabilitated war criminals, sinecure columnists, and various other Beltway mutants
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one of the weird and telling things that Nate Silver and other Poll Knowers do is anthropomorphize their tools. they talk about what "the model" does it terms that grant it agency and intention – a flawed oracle, and they merely is helpless stewards.
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love to live in the age when at any given time the little gewgaw in your pocket can deliver you some news that makes your heart instantly turn to ash
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tipping discourse is one of the things i'm a principles zealot about. yeah it's a stupid way to organize an industry, but you're not fixing that tonight. tip 20% or make your own fucking dinner
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hey nate, out of curiosity, what kind of colleges do you think have major investments in companies making weapons and surveillance technology
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Nate Silver
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Of course the stereotype was that these protests were concentrated at expensive elite colleges but I didn't realize the rather extreme extent to which that's actually true.
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