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Obama in particular deserves more criticism. He ran on codifying Roe and had for a time 60 Senate seats.
Briahna Joy Gray@briebriejoy
Very weird to blame Jezebel and not Obama and Biden: The two presidents who could've codified it and didn't!
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@LauraRbnsn Have you read James Barr's "Fundamentalism?" He described this attitude extremely accurately in 1978. Of course, it wasn't dominant in national politics at the time.
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Matt Walsh is having the “oh my gosh, I’m the only evangelical in this room who believes any of this” moment that everyone goes through.
The first time you watch everyone just stop believing one thing and start believing another because someone important told them to is wild. But
Blue Georgia@BlueGeorgia
Matt Walsh is having an absolute public meltdown today.
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@EdwinaPJones @also_psyche I enjoyed Katabasis after hating Babel (overly didactic) but it's not on the level of the other books in this thread. There's a lot of intertextuality with Dante, but I'm not sure I think she really understood him.
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@also_psyche My daughter really enjoyed Katabasis but is more ambivalent about Kuang’s other books
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If you know of a modern novel which engages so deeply with the classics & its philosophical and literary forebears such that rereading it is always a new, rich experience, you should share it with me. My list is pretty short (Piranesi, Secret History, Till We Have Faces)
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@AliceFromQueens I think Tesla self-driving being so bad, especially in comparison to the rhetoric about it, made a lot of people justifiably skeptical. Waymo is a fundamentally better technology
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Self-driving cars are like the new weight loss drugs
Their value is so large, so obvious, and so scalable, that we can confidently predict their triumph regardless of knee-jerk cultural resistance and their wildly exaggerated downsides.
Ethan Mollick@emollick
It seems like there is not enough of a policy response to the fact that, with 57M miles of data, Waymo’s autonomous vehicles experience 85% less serious injuries & 79% less injuries overall than cars with human drivers. 2.4 million are injured & 40k killed in US accidents a year
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@joshtpm @LPDonovan @samstein The implied audience for mainstream coverage is moderate democrats, so the media provides narratives that antagonize/interest that audience. The media also learned all the wrong lessons from 2016 and sees a weak Trump as an invincible political force.
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I think more generally GOPs always think they're winning. Goes beyond polls frankly. What's notable this year is that real Dem leads remain "toss ups" while real Trump leads mean landslides. Some of that is understamdable caution given earlier polling misses. But it goes beyond that to a more general tilt in coverage.
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I continue to find the polls less notable than the reaction to them. Had NBC come out with Trump +5 nationally, there would be a Prozac shortage on the Dem side. This morning, it's the inverse, and Republicans don't seem too worried that they may lose a winnable race
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Donald Trump is 78 years old and in a state of profound cognitive decline.
He should end his campaign immediately.
Retweet if you think that Trump is unfit to serve!
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Trump spent months after the 2020 elex telling millions of supporters that if they didn't help him reverse his legitimate loss, they'd lose their country. That led to 1/6.
And for the last three years, you have offered nothing but craven, sycophantic apologetics for all of it.
JD Vance@JDVance
Today is not just some isolated incident. The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led directly to President Trump's attempted assassination.
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New episode out today! Featuring the actor @TedDanson 🤯, the actor @mrdavidreed 🦷, the actor @sueharrison123 🎧, the actor @NatashaHodgson 🤪, the actor @markturetsky 🎙️ and the actor @LinneaSage 🐭.
The loaves must be made.
maximumfun.org/episodes/beef-…
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Big thanks to the Guardian for writing about us this week.
Brave of them to hype a rival but it is Christmas so maybe it's a football in no man's land situation.
theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…
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@JesseThorn Those socks are from Costco. I know because I have the same ones
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While I hope the writers' and actors' strikes in the US succeed and are resolved as soon as possible, I also hope it leads to the production of shows where pigs and horses in human masks deliver scripts written by Netflix executives.
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@ZODIAC_MF "It's all bullshit" is essentially what Macbeth says throughout act V, this guy should have passed
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"ITS ALL BULLSHIT" HAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Sanj@sanjmovies
@ZODIAC_MF i hate macbeth - cause i failed it in high school . its all bullshit .
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@beefanddairy Duchovny's mouthwatering ribs landed in my lap like manna from heaven. They were so delicious I barely heard all the screaming.
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