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I'm so old I'm literally baffled by your bafflement. We did the things we enjoyed/were interested in doing in the actual physical city/town/neighborhood where we lived & in course met others who enjoyed/were interested in the same things.
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The fact that the widespread viewing of this gang of black kids bullying & baiting this pregnant woman in order to steal the bike she had paid for didn't provoke mass violence against black youth is definitive proof that white supremacy is no threat to anyone in the US.
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Blessedly, I have no idea who either of those women are. There's a reason I don't have a TV.
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When I was a kid, it was a method used to induce the other children to use social discipline on the bad kid & it worked. But then came the anti-bullying campaigns & now we have Neely-Penny moral reversal. Progressivism is a euphemism for communism, aka revenge of the losers.
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While blind loyalty to Trump among his supporters is undeniable, I can't see them ardently jumping on the bandwagon of whomever the GOP chose to replace him.
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Yes. Because he was a nationalist who was resisting Chinese dominance in Asia-Pacific. The international left supports Chinese hegemony. But they know that if they say it out loud, they will lose elections.
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No, he didn't because he can't.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Her entire online presence lately has looked like an audition for the role of Amber Heard in the inevitable Johnny Depp biopic.
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The concepts of "deal breaker", "screening" & "filters" weren't even part of the the dating lexicon until *very* recently. We were not so mercantile in our approach. Dating was more human, less commodified & def less mediated.
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Remember when Eric Weinstein warned about this? 01:11:02
piped.video/watch?v=o2nG7-eX…
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No. This is blatantly unconstitutional. You took an oath to uphold the Constitution. This proves that you are completely untrustworthy. What kind of Christian are you, exactly?
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Only two of these states have a Democrat for governor & of those (CO & NC) only Colorado has a Democrat-controlled state legislature.
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Don't tell me what to do 👏🏻
Don't tell me what to do 👏🏻
Don't tell me what to do 👏🏻
Don't tell me what to do 👏🏻
Don't tell me what to do 👏🏻
Don't tell me what to do 👏🏻
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I should add that 1st they took away recess, which was where/when the social discipline happened. Never occurred to me until now how much that was part of the method of controlling via demoralization & inculcating powerlessness.
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Sophistry in the form of “Biblical” instruction is a form of bearing false witness. A sin. Shame on you.
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One of the most prominent obstacles to organizing against CRT is that normal people just can't get their heads around the depth of the depravity.
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Poor flower. Your Racecraft™ grift has lost all power behind the fraud of a lazy climber. Cry it out.
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The fact that the widespread viewing of this gang of black kids bullying & baiting this pregnant woman in order to steal the bike she had paid for didn't provoke mass violence against black youth is definitive proof that white supremacy is no threat to anyone in the US.
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Yep. Conversation at local last night w two neighbors, one a history prof and one an ER nurse, heard the same. Where am I?
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That's Helen Pluckrose, one of the authors of the fake papers known as the Grievance Studies Affair. This is parody. She's exposing the sophistry that stands in for thinking/argumentation on the Academic Left.
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I was wrong. Two of the cities have Republican mayors. Sandy Stimpson is the Republican mayor of Mobile, now serving his 3rd term. Shreveport mayor just took office & is the first Republican mayor of that city in 28 years. We'll see what he does.
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It started during the Obama Admin, ramped up when Clinton lost & has been escalating ever since.
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She may hate Snow White, but not as much as her publicist hates *her*. I mean, look at that outfit.
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Macron needs to get on the phone to @nayibbukele
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"CDC Admits It Never Monitored VAERS for Covid Vaccine Safety Signals"
boriquagato.substack.com/p/h…
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Shame on you. The only hope for this young woman is in her paying a steep price for choices.
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Neighbors recently said they didn't stop in small towns when they road-tripped across the western US b/c it's Trump country & they were worried about violence. These are 2 upper middle class white people in their late 50s. I rolled my eyes & they started back-pedalling on their rhetoric. People need to speak up when unchecked/siloed libs spout this horseshit.
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The study:
cureus.com/articles/196275-i…
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That's Robert Kennedy, Jr's theory.
piped.video/watch?v=lkKOt4SY…
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We left it too late. Those of us warning against society's "non-judgmental" turn have been marginalized & ridiculed for decades. Time to seek New Byzantium. Buckle up & knuckle down.
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"If my understanding of this situation is correct, the mass vaccination program should be immediately halted...We cannot tolerate a misleading statement of 'vaccines are safe and effective'...The CDC leadership should be immediately replaced and investigated..."
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“Cromwell, the French, the Bolsheviks, Pol Pot, Mao, and the rest were all leading people to see ‘what can be, unburdened by what has been.’” 🚨🧵
Let's talk about @KamalaHarris saying "to see what can be, unburdened by what has been." This phrase, which she repeats all the time, is not mysterious. It's esoteric. That is, it's occult. It's a Marxist and Luciferian incantation, and that's easily seen.
nitter.app/GeniusBotX/status/1808…
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Since the '90s its politics has been centered on condescension. Once-great industrial centers are now "fly-over country", gutted by Dem trade policies that destroyed the prosperity of their traditional base while liberals rolled their eyes & said learn to code. Slippery slope …
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Calling Trump's ridiculing Warren for redface racist is unambiguously retarded. In fact … Paging @IfindRetards …
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Ethel Waters
Diahann Carroll
Nichelle Nichols
Gail Fisher
Cicely Tyson
Lisa Bonet
Halle Berry
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It's the parents. Nothing gets fixed until we admit this & say it everywhere, always.
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@ucdavis This Asst Prof MUST be fired at once.
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The effects were concentrated among locales wherein the Deep Blue brainwashing had been going on for decades. Other locales were able to see it as TV & identify in the same way that TV viewers identify w the characters/situations in the programs they watch.
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Rogan's “Look, I'll talk to anybody who's willing to come on & have a reasonable conversation” shtick only works if he's willing to do his homework & give serious pushback on pernicious narratives. I don't see him doing that. Hope he will.
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Only if reworded to read:
Section 161.0086, Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act, prohibits any person from compelling or coercing an individual lawfully residing in this state into obtaining medical treatments.
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Saying that "parents — not government — know what's best for their children's education" is the same as saying "parents know more about education than professional educators" is like saying "I have no argument so I offer this straw man instead".
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“The future may not actually look like a boot stamping on a human face, forever, as Orwell suggested. It might look very much like a bunch of turnstyles and vending machines refusing you access until you do whatever "responsible" things they demand you do, forever.”
This rather crude drawing is in my opinion one key to understanding Marxist thought and activity as it changed in the 1960s and presents today. Marx's presumption about the evolution of History to its inevitable conclusion at Global Communism got revised.
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No, it isn't. Terrorism is a noun and stochastic is an adjective. #Agnotology
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Yep. Those who have followed the great work of @ConceptualJames already know.
newdiscourses.com/2024/04/th…
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Sorry, no. People who can't control powerful animals & take them out into civilization nonetheless are criminals & should be dealt w as such. Reckless endangerment at a minimum.
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As w turn the other cheek (an admonition against revenge) the Biblical admonition to love your enemies does not mean to fail to defend against them. It is an admonition to pray for their salvation, to leave space in your heart for their repentance & to permit them to return to the fold if they do. Self-defense is defense of God's creation, an unequivocal moral good.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…
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It's treason. 🧵👀
The purposes of Agenda 2030 are
1) Weaken the West and allow China to rise to global superpower
2) Impoverish the West to control it through energy, water, and food scarcity
3) Break national sovereignty across the West
4) Install Western-world global government
It's treason.
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Your attempt to use her patriotism & generosity of spirit to beat up on your political opponents is disgraceful. Shame on you.
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🚨👀 “We have around 11 weeks to stand up against this & make it wildly unpopular with the American people … [We] need to call upon [our] reps & senators & demand this not be able to be implemented by ‘executive agreement’ without Senate approval, or at all. Make it toxic.” 🧵
You must understand: under this treaty, there will be no states' rights to handle "public health" "emergencies" any longer. There will be no Free State of Florida. Unaccountable WHO officials will wield all of that power through a plenary federal government. But it gets worse.
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Raising a kid changed me utterly. I am ten times the person I was before. Full of awe, wiser, kinder, more patient, more playful, more optimistic. I am so grateful for my son!
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