@lord__mike @ZaidJilani I just read the quotes from Democrats.
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@emrtechnet @ZaidJilani bought into the right wing lies and slander, have you?
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Democrats need more alphas in politics to win back men
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed@AbdulElSayed
Had a blast working out with Terra at Detroit Body Garage. We discussed the importance of people of all ages getting in their daily movement, and how government can improve health outcomes by investing in the simple idea that no one should go without healthcare in the richest, most powerful country in the world. Pass Medicare for All.
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@ZaidJilani They might not be "conservative" but they are pushing back against the excesses of the progressives.
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So much for Gen Z being conservative. I think they just want to be able to afford a good life which is why they didn’t like Biden and don’t like Trump.
Political Polls@PpollingNumbers
New - Generic Ballot poll (Age 18-29) 🔵 Democrats 86% 🔴 Republicans 12% Atlasintel #A - RV - 5/7
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@HistoryBoomer Thanks for talking about this. That 30 year old guy probably did not have kids of his own and had a completely unrealistic idea of small children
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Stop threatening parents with CPS unless there is actual physical abuse!
When my kid was a toddler, he was a holy terror. His tantrums were rock-star-trash-a-hotel-room level. No, we were not lenient; he was a madman.
By age 5, he was improving, but still rough. One day he decided to stage a sit-down strike near the 17th Street Barnes and Noble. I don't remember the reason, but I knew trying to negotiate or drag him down the street would both fail. He needed time and space.
So I let him slump down on the sidewalk, leaning against a "No Parking" sign. Tired me sat across the sidewalk from him, leaning against the Barnes and Noble wall. It was a wide sidewalk, so he was maybe 12 feet away from me. Or 15 feet?
As we sat, one dude (30-something?) saw the kid "by himself." He looked around for a parent (good for him!), and saw me. I waved and gestured to show that it's ok, the kid was with me.
He walked over and said, "You know, I could call Child Services on you." (!!!)
I am a peaceful, easy-going dude. Nobody is ever afraid of me! But something on my tired dad face made him quickly back away towards the Barnes and Noble doors. As he's going in, he pulls out his phone and gestures at me, as if to say, "I'm calling them now." What an asshole.
Less than a minute later, I see my kid getting up. I can tell the tantrum has faded. I get up too. "I'm sorry, Dad." "It's ok, kid, let's go home." And we did.
That kind of nonsense is hateful. People who do it should be publicly shamed. Leave parents alone! Most are doing their best!
Liz Wolfe@LizWolfeReason
Also, there's a lot of grey area that we're not prepared to deal with. Do these people think cps should be called on a 6-year-old who walks to the nearby bodega by himself? What about the 8-year-old using the subway or bus on his own? What about the mom who hires a 12-year-old to babysit? What about the 4-year-old who is in a taxi cab without a carseat for a short ride? What about––my own hypothetical that the internet flipped out at me for––bringing a young baby to a wedding vs. spending the newborn days in total isolation? What if cps is called by someone who has no kids and doesn't know what might be developmentally appropriate, or someone who has a grudge against the person they're trying to report? Weaponization of cps (and threatening cps involvement in a cavalier, bullying way) is one of the absolute worst trends of the last few decades. There's a lot of grey area that's just *hard* to sift through. CPS should be used for genuinely abusive and neglectful situations. We've entirely lost the plot.
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@ZaidJilani I don't think Piker is misogynistic. But I do think he completely lacks a moral compass.
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Hasan is not a misogynist. Donald Trump is a misogynist. When Democrats do circular firing squad over these social-cultural issues only the Republicans benefit.
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This girl boss stuff is really toxic for expanding the Democratic coalition and winning back men. When McMorrow called Piker "misogynistic" is when I started commenting more on this race because it was a bad sign for the Democrats.
GL@gldivittorio
Found this article interviewing McMorrow's comms director about Hillary Clinton genuinely months ago and decided to keep it to myself because I don't generally like staff oppo and it's mostly just cringey and funny but if we're going low ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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@bendreyfuss There is always so much shame with porn. Either from the right or the left.
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I don’t even understand why porn is supposed to be inherently misogynist? Some of them don’t even have women! Not not that I know much about those. Me? Heterosexual porn or nothing.. Please don’t put in the newspaper that I watch all-male pornography
alexis@imheretolurk13
I love that more and more women are calling out their boyfriends for watching that misogynistic trash 🙂↕️
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@joeroganhq Isn't Glasian Maxwell Jewish? She is in prison
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Dan Blizerian: "89% of the people implicated in criminal activity in the Epstein files are Jewish… and the only people they’ve really gone after are Bill Gates and Prince Andrew… 2 non-jews."
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@stevemur @KIRONewsradio Who needs employers or people who are employed and can pay taxes - that is for filthy Capitalism.
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@KIRONewsradio To be clear, it's the DEFICIT that is exceeding the former Mayor's estimates by more than $100 million. In other words, revenue is coming well under forecast.
Gee. I wonder why?
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Seattle is facing a near half-billion-dollar budget deficit over the next three years, according to new city projections that exceed former Mayor Bruce Harrell’s estimates by more than $100 million. mynorthwest.com/mynorthwest-po…
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@BriannaWu Well I am sorry. I imagine I would not like one of my siblings to transition but you are a very lovable person. I would learn to accept your transition and continue to love you.
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I hope people will read these awful comments, thrilled at parent disowning their trans child
This is not about sports. It is a hate-fueled mob that feels joy when trans people are torn apart.
Brianna Wu@BriannaWu
Yesterday was one of the most devastating days of my life. My adoptive family disowned me when I transitioned twenty years ago. This year, I made a fresh effort to reach out and see if there was room for us to mend these wounds. I got word through a family friend that they have no interest whatsoever in ever speaking again. They feel that I made a decision in transitioning, and that is the end of our relationship. I cannot begin to explain how much it hurts to be adopted by family and then thrown away like a piece of garbage, just because I am trans.
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@TomeiTyler @ZaidJilani Is Chicago "cooking the data" when none of it's students can read on grade level?
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@ZaidJilani The state is cooking the data and I’m surprised more people don’t think about that when they mention this lol
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After Mississippi implemented a basic educational reform (more money, holding students and teachers accountable), its students now outperform California's, despite the state having a fraction of Cali's wealth.
Conspiratorial Templates@mynamehear
The South is amazing. Imagine making absolutely zero progress in basically any area for 160 years. That's almost a talent.
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@ZaidJilani True it is a Mississippi Miracle! Just common sense stuff not all the self flagellation blue states were engaging in.
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@joeroganhq Me too! I do think after this loss the Dems will move back to the center. Sure some will stay on the fringe but most will move to the center.
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Joe Rogan: "I'm willing to vote Democrat, show me one that says something that makes sense, that I can trust, that's not dying. Just show me one that's younger. Show me one that is a reasonable centrist that makes sense with all this."
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@HistoryBoomer It takes a lot of courage to resist evil in these situations. To not feel like you have to turn a blind eye or even consent to this kind of thing.
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I teach a class on genocide.
Studying genocide, you learn that evil deeds are committed by regular people, and that regular people contain monsters. Thinking "people like me would never do that" is dangerous.
From "An Ordinary Man," on the Rwanda genocide:
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Stephen A. Smith: "I think that ultimately they'll look at the state of California… and say, hello, highest cost of living in the country…"
Whoopi Goldberg: "That's not [Newsom's] fault."
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@mysteriouskat I agree, it is inauthentic. I am starting to notice AI content all around me "It's not about ___ but instead it's about ____" and it is cheesy.
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Even though young people are using AI to write their essays, there's a creeping stigma. A lot of them lose respect for creators and influencers who use AI. They view it as a "boomer" move, inauthetinc, cheesy. There's also increasing criticism about environmental impacts of AI.
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@stevemur I wonder if self-destruction in chasing away employers and the taxes, etc along with it has to do with white guilt? Washington is a very white state w/ substantial Asian minority. It's like "We don't deserve a good business climate because of our white oppression" thoughts?
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In her first day on the job as Mayor, Katie Wilson joined the protests outside of Starbucks World HQ. In November, less than one year ago, she stated "I am not buying Starbucks, and you shouldn't either."
In the months since, Starbucks at first looked to relocate within Washington State, across the lake to Bellevue WA, but then decided, "No thanks," and is decamping to Nashville.
Great work @MayorofSeattle @GovBobFerguson
KOMO News@komonews
Starbucks to lay off 61 workers at Seattle corporate headquarters: komonews.com/news/local/sta…
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@ZaidJilani I think wanting to trans border crossers and hyper racialization of COVID benefits and treatment, hyper DEI stuff - I tend to call that far left.
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Kamala lost because of nothing to do with the far left. Economy and border sucked, Biden age coverup (which she was part of btw). Left doesn’t even factor in x.com/JayBose22/stat…
Jay@JayBose22
@ZaidJilani You never meaningfully engage with critique of the far left's responsibility of using this nothing burger as a weapon. This retweet to "bad politics/strategy" obfuscates the rat fucking your Greenwald Universe did.
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Again I'll say I'm not sure many voters cared either way about this, but it was just a demonstration of the fact Kamala Harris is really bad at politics.
David Sirota@davidsirota
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@wesyang According to the Democrat feminists Porter is nothing more than "High Spirited" it should not be a problem for a woman to be passionate and high spirited - right? LOL
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“Don’t pour a pot of boiling potatoes on your spouse’s head” is a single sex neutral standard of conduct that virtually all seekers of high office of both sexes manage to meet, and that no man would be able to continue running for governor having failed to meet
CalMatters@CalMatters
To experts, it shows voters and political insiders continue to hold female candidates to higher standards than men. cal.news/4wvGtuW 📸 Ethan Swope, AP
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@jessesingal @EmmaVigeland I don't know this "subway shover" but clearly he had problematic impulse problems. Had he gone to jail he might have been compelled to get psychiatric care and he would not be facing life in prison for murder. Oh and the retired teacher might still be with us.
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I've seen this attitude before, most virally from @EmmaVigeland, and I just wish these folks would move beyond their own I'm-such-a-good-person narcissism and consider the *future* well-being of both the crazy person in question and whoever they run up against next
Daily Mail@DailyMail
NYC woman declined to press charges against subway shover 'because she didn't want to put another black man in jail'... weeks later he allegedly killed retired teacher, 76, at station trib.al/ZcetusY
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@joeroganhq I am gob smacked by how the D party will hate white men as if their numbers don't count. Sure please - support minority groups, but you don't have to hate the majority to support the minority. White men are over 30% of the population
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Whoopi Goldberg: "It was important, I think, for Democrats to show that they stood with the LGBT community. That they stood with Black women and women in general. Because once you let us go. Once you let women and poor people go. What do you have?"
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