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“We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat.” — Roger Freeman, adviser to Reagan and Nixon, arguing for limits on access to education. The US is functionally illiterate by design. Literacy is a tool of freedom, something that is intolerable in the land of the free.
Athenaeum Book Club@athenaeumbc
About 54% of U.S. adults (ages 16-74) — roughly 130 million people — read below a 6th-grade level. Why does nobody talk about this?
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They love to act like backing a genocide is some niche side issue and not the defining characteristic of someone’s politics that makes or breaks their ethical credibility on every other issue
best of kamala harris@archivekamala
.@CoryBooker: “You may disagree with her [Kamala Harris] on 10% of her views, but you let someone get in office who you disagree with on everything. You let somebody get in office who is locking up our children. You let somebody in office who is taking away our healthcare.”
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@EmTeaVe @ejdickson @WIRED I know you’re embarrassed, but don’t make yourself look even dumber… Donald Trump has to be one of the dumbest people who’s ever run this country and you guys cheer it on because you like the pat on the back. This is the dumbest era America has ever had.
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@ejdickson @WIRED This is far easier to do with the left. Just make an androgynous trans underaged anime character that loves communism.
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@dilanesper Isn’t it interesting that the theoretical Palestinian state is an existential threat to Israel yet Israel is an actual existential threat to Palestine
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Peace agreements can only be based on earned trust. And this sort of rhetoric is exactly how the evil, anti-semitic, anti-peace Left makes a peace process more difficult.
They know arming the Palestinian state at the outset threatens Jews' lives. That's WHY they obsess about it.
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This is the rub with all “2 state solution” bromides from high status liberals: you ask them to define a “Palestinian state” and even their most blue sky vision is a completely humiliated bantustan occupied by foreign troops. No such comparable demands ofc are ever made of Israel
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@LisaCameBack @burdentruth Leftists consistently ask for the same stuff. What’s been incorrectly identified as goal post movement is actually that dems are (rightfully) held to a higher standard than fascist republicans. Your contempt for people who want better is noted.
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@tuffer1969 @MAGACult2 When everyone in Gaza actually knows is that if Israel didn’t exist, they wouldn’t have to suffer. That is also what the rest of us know now too.
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@MAGACult2 Surely everyone in Gaza knows the reason why they are dying is Hamas they put civilians in front of the terrorists to hope that they will not be fired upon well that ain’t happening go back to October 7
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Cenk should go viral for this. Not saying make my post go viral. I don’t care. We care about getting the message out. And this is the best direct call out of Israel I’ve ever seen.
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@daidenjin004 @tparsi Your entire country was founded on terrorism against its native population by literal criminals. You must be joking
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@tparsi You do realize advocation of terrorism is a criminal offence?
Oh no, you don't. Because you are one...
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LOL!
This woman is a genius! In the parody of democracy that Germany has become, you get arrested if you say "From the River to the Sea."
So this pro-Palestine protester asks if it is ok to say "From the River to the Beach" 😂😂😂😂
This is a scene straight out of Kafka...
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@romanhsz @Reri12345 @_natypabon @slifante What is functionally useful about this argument? Your whole argument hinges on the fact that you refuse to mind your own business or be respectful. Pronouns and names are just honorifics and referring to people one way or another is about respect it is not innately important
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@3mbxr @Reri12345 @_natypabon @slifante No. Mi argumento es que no hay nada trascendental al cuerpo
No creo que exista un "gen gay". Lo que estoy diciendo es que nadie puede cambiar de sexo/genero
Que un hombre haga "cosas de mujer" o se comporte como una una mujer no tiene nada de malo, pero eso no lo hace una mujer.
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Ahora que hay traducción global, quiero preguntarle a los rusos: tenéis un gobierno con muchas leyes anti-LGBT y por eso el resto suponemos que Rusia no es un lugar seguro para nosotros. Pero el gobierno y el sentimiento popular no son lo mismo. Cómo es la realidad del dia a dia?
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@romanhsz @Reri12345 @_natypabon @slifante Nobody is forcing you to do anything, you just want to live in a world where there are no social consequences for disrespecting transgender people and to that I say that’s not the era we’re living in and you will always be aligning yourself with bigots should you choose this path
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@3mbxr @Reri12345 @_natypabon @slifante Siempre han existido en todas las culturas hombres que se comportan/visten como mujeres y mujeres que se comportan o visten como hombres.
Y siempre existirán.
No deben ser discriminados por eso, pero no me pueden obligar a decir que un hombre con apariencia de mujer es una mujer
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@romanhsz @Reri12345 @_natypabon @slifante I also find it ironic that you described listening to one’s heart as magical thinking (again you didn’t understand what it means but I digress) only for you to then turn around to discuss “essence”
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@romanhsz @Reri12345 @_natypabon @slifante I don’t think it is functionally useful to restrict how a person identifies themselves or what they want to do with their own body on their own time. As a matter of fact I would posit it is a waste of time to focus any energy on transgender people who are 1% of the population
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@romanhsz @Reri12345 @_natypabon @slifante You couldn’t possibly actually think that “listen to your heart” is a literal phrase related to magical ideology and not just an expression meaning to trust your own understanding of your personal desires and needs? Is this a language barrier issue?
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@3mbxr @Reri12345 @_natypabon @slifante Escuchar tu corazón" es pura ideología mágica. Los corazones no hablan, solo palpitan.
No hay nada mágico dentro de ti, reemplazaa la idea de alma de las religiones por la idea de "género" o la idea de algo mágico dentro de ti que debes escuchar. Eso es solo otra religión más.
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I am Alaa, a medical student in Gaza
I fight every day for my dream, because it is the only hope I have left in this life.
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@romanhsz @Reri12345 @_natypabon @slifante If your opinion is that we should look for a “cure” for this then so be it, but you’re pretension that this purely a social issue without a pre-birth biological component is not an argument supported by facts or science.
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@romanhsz @Reri12345 @_natypabon @slifante Gender and sexuality are in fact shaped before birth due to the unique hormonal environment within the womb. This is why we are unable to identify a “gay gene” or “trans gene” there is no “correction” for this within modern medicine
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