@peterawolf I think LGBT or LGBTQ was fine; it only became annoying when the list constantly expanded.
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Mercenary29
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Was it Ian McKellen who said something along the lines of, “Why don’t we just say queer since that covers everyone”
Dilan Esper@dilanesper
This is a minor point but maybe this is the right tweet to say it about, because Obama is a skilled former politician. Democrats should stop saying "LGBTQ+". It's terrible politics. It's not how normal people talk. Say "gay and trans people" instead. MAYBE "LGBT" occasionally.
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@Noahpinion Pre-social media, "It bleeds it leads" existed, but there was only so much damage a newspaper headline could do. Social media is this model pumped to people 24/7.
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More and more people are realizing that SOCIAL MEDIA IS THE ENEMY.
Your phone is an umbilical that connects your brain to a universe of hatred, ruled by the most hateful, twisted people in our whole society.
Jeremiah Johnson 🌐@JeremiahDJohns
Boomers think Gen Z is screwed because of fancy lunches. Online doomers think Gen Z is screwed because the Boomers ruined everything. I'm in @TheArgumentMag arguing for a secret third option: Gen Z is doing fine, but social media is driving us insane. theargumentmag.com/p/young-people…
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@lazyass_tec @nikicaga He was in third place; he probably thought that if he was ahead of Benson, the party would side with his independent run, like with Osborn in NE. When he was falling behind, it was clear he would just be a spoiler.
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@Evercor91 @nikicaga I mean it worked out pretty well for Jessie Ventura
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@nikicaga Most people don't like being a spoiler; Nader is the exception, not the rule.
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But yeah, polling quite well only to suddenly end it is crazy, what happened here
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@KareemRifai The argument is we should not blockade a country even if it's a dictatorship and make a bad situation worse; should we blockade all dictatorships? This is hypocritical because America trades with Saudi Arabia, China, Vietnam, the UAE, etc., all of which are not democracies.
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@peterawolf Interesting, I will admit to just knowing her as a cultural figure, I never watched the original cartoons, but I was surprised because I never saw her claimed as Jewish before.
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@Evercor91 It’s heavily hinted at in the cartoons. The family lives on the Lower East Side, Yiddish is lightly peppered in, her dad is depicted with a yarmulke (though they add a single hair so it looks like a bald spot).
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@LinkofSunshine It was insane; he was arrested when this was far from the meanest Charlie Kirk meme. He didn't say he was happy about it or had him in hell suffering or something; it was making fun of how conservatives don't care about other gun crimes.
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Good, this was one of the most ridiculous violations of free speech I’ve ever seen, he was blatantly arrested in retaliation from a cop mad about Charlie Kirk.
The country completely lost its mind for a week, glad there was no lasting damage
FIRE@TheFIREorg
Last year, the police jailed Larry Bushart for 37 days on a $2M bond for posting a meme after Charlie Kirk’s murder. With our help, Larry sued Perry County, TN, and its sheriff for violating his rights in retaliation for his protected speech. He has received a $835K settlement.
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BREAKING: The Man In Tennessee who spent 37 days in jail for posting a Charlie Kirk meme on Facebook just won $835,000
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@nikicaga Famously, this crowd had to flip flop on HOTD being a woke failure when the show did well.
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We have a GOT show that aired in 2026
Does it look like this?
Medieval Diesel@TimothyEveland
If Game of Thrones was filmed in 2026.
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@micah_erfan This being a battle is much more due to Trump endorsing his opponent than any source of money.
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Thomas Massie was the overwhelming favorite to win reelection.
Then the Israel lobby dropped 35 million dollars against him.
It should not be possible to buy elections like this.
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@blankslate2017 Trump knows that if he attacks Iran again, oil will go up to at least 115 to 125, a noticeable increase at the pump, and it would hurt him. It is not more complicated than that.
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After Iran survived the initial blitz, they've been getting a lot of help from Russia and China. It's now effectively a proxy war between Russia and China on one side and the US on the other.
Faytuks Network@FaytuksNetwork
Trump reportedly paused additional strikes on Iran partly over Pentagon concerns that Tehran was becoming more effective at tracking U.S. air operations and improving its air defenses - NYT
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@NoLawfare2025 @sam_d_1995 Is every other elected Democrat in Colorado an internet rando?
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@Evercor91 @sam_d_1995 He’s worth hundreds of millions from earlier business ventures. He doesn’t care what internet randos think.
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Jared Polis is the worst dem governor in the country, and frankly, it isn’t even close.
He follows me, and I hope he sees this. Resign, bozo.
Marshall Cohen@MarshallCohen
SCOOP from @IsaacDovere: Colorado Gov. Polis (D) grants clemency to Tina Peters, the Trump ally in prison for conspiring to breach election systems to audit the 2020 results. Polis is cutting her 9-year term in half, and says she could be out this summer cnn.com/2026/05/15/pol…
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@JHWeissmann @alpert This is an honest question: could it support any housing at all? It seems putting more housing instead of a golf course is a good idea.
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I think @alpert has said the landfill can’t support dense construction
Lee Kuan Yimby 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇬@billiceberg
East Potomac Park in DC could be one of the best neighborhoods in the entire United States, but instead this land will have 20 people playing golf on it during business hours. Let's get our priorities together!!!
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Wanting to ban lab grown meat is probably one of the most needlessly evil political opinions anyone could have.
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@KareemRifai There is a good chance a lot of Chinese people would lose their lives in a war with Taiwan. If you like China so much, does that factor in?
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Implication here being that the US, not China, would start a war over Taiwan?
The dedication to playing defense for China's very publicly stated imperial ambitions is beyond bizarre at this point.
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@GrayfellaNAFO The Gulf doing the drone deals was a good sign, remember, the UAE and Saudi Arabia not only did not sanction Russia, but they kept oil production low enough to help them in 2022. Those deals show they think they will need a relationship with a free Ukraine going forward.
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Figured out the Ukraine flip in the last few days from the US. They finally brought in Ukrainian UAS, and have now seen how effective they are against Iran. The need more drones and operators, but those can only be freed up if Russia fucks off.
Kraut@The_Davos_Man
Loomer was one of the most pro-Russian people in MAGA. The fact that she is now jumping ship, is also an indicator of how well things are going for Ukraine.
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@JeremiahDJohns Undoing Brexit and admitting it was a mistake would at least be a start.
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Probably the most NIMBY country in the world, with suicidal but untouchable policies like the triple lock, Brexit, anemic growth, a political culture that seems risk averse in the extreme and terrified of change. Just repeatedly stabbing themselves in the face.
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Not to defend the job Starmer's performance, because I don't think he deserves it, but more and more I really do think Britain is actually ungovernable
Or to be clearer, British voters have the government they want, and it sucks, and they demand it keeps sucking.
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@CentristMadness Also, it is autocracies that can do this; European leaders who try this would get hammered by their base. Even right now the Gulf states after all thier flattery did not get what they want with a war in Iran.
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He’s a Russian intelligence asset you fucking moron. Why doesn’t Ukraine get what they want from him? Why doesn’t Europe? Why doesn’t Canada? Fucking use whatever is left of your brain for a second
Legal Phil@Legal_Fil
Whenever I see these over-the-top welcomes of Trump abroad, I’m reminded of how the only people who don’t know how to get what they want from Trump are Democrats.
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