@BradfemlyWalsh What you're explaining was my mother. Not my father. Stop it.
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thenamedoesntmatch
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This is probably the most common and pervasive way in which little girls are taught to prioritise men and placate them at all costs and little boys are taught that life should revolve around them as adults.
Collins🦋@collinstimbela_
A grumpy man can control a family without ever raising his voice. He just has to make his displeasure expensive enough. A long silence at dinner. A ruined car ride. Soon, everyone starts pre-adjusting. The kids are told “not now” before they can ask. She chooses the restaurant he likes, the movie he won’t complain through, the route that avoids traffic because traffic makes him unbearable. This is how a household becomes organized around one person’s refusal to regulate themselves.
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@dilanesper Mifepristone is dangerous. It is not a benign drug. It can get stuck in your organs and cause serious problems. It can fuck up your hormones forever. It can cause serious acne. You're better off getting an abortion.
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you know, one reason i have so little respect for the pro-life movement is that a lot of them know this is a total lie but nobody on that side ever says "stop scaring women with lies, it's terrible"
Pepe Unchained Support@pepeunchaintm
@JAldrichPL @dilanesper Mifepristone's dangers are alarming & need immediate attention. The ban on telemedicine prescriptions is a step back. Be aware of potential complications & seek timely medical care if needed.
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California Homelessness Executive making $430,000 per year, funneled million of dollars into her husband’s NGO three separate times, and has taxpayers pay for open bars at her parties. She paid $800,000 to silence whistleblowers
@5149jamesli “Her name is Dr Va Lecia Adams Kellum. She's the former CEO of the LA Homeless Services Authority”
- She paid herself a monstrous salary, $430,000 a year.
- Then she funneled millions of dollars into her husband's sham organization, allegedly three separate times
- She also really tried to booze it up at her holiday party by demanding that taxpayers pay for her open bar, and when an associate of hers said that, hey, that is an improper use of public funds, she got visibly angry and then terminated her employment
“This is not only very petulant behavior, but also very illegal. After that, she started hiring her friends with whistleblowers, alleging that she pushed out staff in experienced staff to hire unqualified friends and former subordinates from her previous job into high level, high salary positions within the LA Homeless Services Authority.
And when people caught wind of this and started reporting, she tried to cover her tracks by destroying public records and also arranging to pay hush money, $800,000 to silence whistleblowers.”
This is why the homeless problem in LA will never get solved. It’s a business and the people who run the business, the politically connected NGOs, are all getting filthy rich. They are quite literally paying themselves half a million dollar salaries and living like kings
How have no Democrats who have allowed this gone to prison
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@shagbark_hick This anecdote does nothing to sway anyone. Homeschooling is for the most part amazing. Public schools for the most part are shitty.
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Say what you will about public schooling, but at a minimum, at a public school there is a process by which abused children can appeal to outside parties.
When it comes to families homeschooling on isolated estates, you really never know what's actually going on out there.
Again, I'm not "anti-homeschooling" per se, but these are the kinds of things that homeschooling advocates are going to have to have a serious answer for as homeschooling continues to grow in popularity.
Kathryn Lea@Kathryn_Lea
@DassCoool @LexLiberty76 @shagbark_hick I experienced violence every day I was homeschooled because my parents beat the shit out of me for hours. I learned pain equals love and endured years of abusive relationships because of it. And I couldn't even get away from it for an hour. No one to tell. Fuck homeschooling.
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@Weinsteinlaw He has a low IQ - that isn to a generality - that is a specific.
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The pattern is unmistakable and repulsive.
If you keep calling Black leaders "low IQ," you aren't expressing a political disagreement. You are using a racist dog whistle to undermine their humanity.
Every single time Donald Trump uses this slur, he shows the country that his politics are built entirely on grievance and bigotry. It’s a disgrace to the office and a stain on this country.
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You don’t have to show ID to eat at a restaurant.
The ID you show to drink at a restaurant isn’t an approved ID under the SAVE America Act.
If the SAVE America Act was a voter ID bill, it would provide voter IDs, but instead, it restricts eligible voters from voting.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Blanche: "There's a lot of things we can be doing, like voter ID. Every time you walk into a restaurant you have to show ID. How about you have to show your idea to vote? That's not anything that's crazy."
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@SukritGanesh So basically communist Russia. Gee how did that work out? Living like this is dehumanizing. Shoving poor people into these will result in slums and projects. Get it?
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If California wants to become affordable, it needs to copy-paste tens of thousands of exactly this type of apartment building: 6 stories with ground-floor parking; 2 units per floor (either two 2-beds + den or one 1-bed and one 3-bed); single stair and elevator; 7,000 sq ft lot.
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@mcuban As the owner of a 300 person company pre-obama care - when we paid half of every person's health insurance which was on average 150 a month. Post Obama care - we can't afford to pay our hourly employees healthcare. Break the monopolies.
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Everything is working so well right now. People hate the economics of healthcare. They are terrified they won’t be able to afford what they need and they already can’t afford their deductibles.
Employers have to pay 30k a year and it impacts their hiring and firing decisions.
The big vertically integrated companies game MLR, game managed Medicaid. Under pay, over charge , year apart independent pharmacies and physicians
It’s the furthest thing from an efficient market. And you think breaking them up would be worse ?
How could it possibly get worse
Anish Koka, MD@anish_koka
Republicans will screw these things up just as often as Democrats. Which is why breaking up the health systems or the big health insurance companies would be a bad idea. We should go after the regulatory drivers of these monopolies (there are many) rather than use the big brother government cudgel to break them up.
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The Patriot Act was sold as a tool to keep us safe, but instead it opened the door to mass government surveillance and the erosion of our civil liberties. It’s time to end these abuses and restore the constitutional rights the Founders intended. The Fourth Amendment must be protected.
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@freganmitts It is not illegal to run a placebo trial on vaccines. If it is show me the law. You do know what a law is right>?
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@melisa22095 It would be illegal to run a placebo-controlled study for those vaccines
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I grew up in an antivax community, every discussion is like this: “here’s my non-expert analysis of my anecdotal evidence, sample size of five” and every response is like “OMG GIRL YES” bc mystical parental intuition is given a prior of .99.
Daughter of Wolves@Alicia_Bittle_
2 of my babies got the standard vit K shot. They got jaundice that needed to be treated medically. 1 of my babies got the preservative free vit k shot. She had jaundice that was borderline. 2 of my babies never received the shot. Their bilirubin levels were the lowest out of all my children and the doctors were unconcerned.
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@redpillb0t Hmmm almost like the Fed and central banks all over the world are acting in a coordinated way to crash their currencies. If you don't think we need to end the Fed by now - you're actually hopeless.
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A former World Bank president has sounded the alarm, revealing that the Federal Reserve has lost over a trillion dollars—and counting—turning it into nothing more than a massive hedge fund for the rich and powerful.
He claims the Fed is borrowing money from banks at 5.4% interest, then pouring it into government bonds, creating the illusion that the government’s financial situation is better than it actually is.
He warns that this scheme isn’t just limited to the U.S.—it’s happening across central banks worldwide.
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This is my issue with conservatives explained in a single video: They are COMPLETELY unable to practice any kind of empathy (neither cognitive nor emotional) with any out-group. Until they have first-hand experience with an issue, they cannot fathom that it even exists
The Fifth Column 🖐@wethefifth
Adopting a child from Ethiopia changed David French's perspective on the state of racism in America. From our new episode with @davidafrench.
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@TheAuthorGuy No we didn't. Our government subsidizes people so that the banks can rig the system and can break the laws
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Because we agreed as a society that it's not right to let poor people go hungry. (Remember right and wrong?) Before you shout about them getting a job, 39% of SNAP recipients are children. 25% are disabled adults. Roughly half of recipients are employed (yes there's overlap).
Steve Ferguson@lsferguson
Why should taxpayers be paying for other people's food?
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@freganmitts The burden of proof that a medical intervention does not harm is on the manufacturer. It is not on the individual. There are no placebo based trials for MMR, DTAP, or Hep B. Vaccinating everyone, then manipulating data sets is not proof.
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@melisa22095 There is not a single well done scientific study that proves anything you are claiming.
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@freganmitts Vaccines are neither safe nor effective. The fact that you use the word believe says everything. It is not belief. It is a fact. They are not safe.
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@melisa22095 Absolutely not, I believe vaccines are safe and effective
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@JillFilipovic This demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding of why parents homeschooled. Homeschooled all three of my children. Oldest is top of her class at USC.
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Right, if homeschooling is actually super high quality, then homeschooling families should not object to being evaluated, tested, and checked-in-on to make sure their kids are actually learning.
𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗@shagbark_hick
Look, pro-homeschooling people are piling on this guy but he's not wrong at all. I know of families who are straight-up failing to teach their children beyond a 2nd-grade education. Like 16-year-old kids who don't know what the Capital of the US is, have never heard of Toronto, and could not perform a basic algebra problem. While it's true that there are many excellent homeschooling families whose instruction far exceeds that of any public school, the fact is that the American system of "school your kids however you want" does also yield a lot of severely stunted kids who get stuck playing "catch-up" for the rest of their lives. My wife was homeschooled, we might homeschool, I'm not averse to the practice per se, but it's a fact that there's a whole world of multi-generational homeschoolers who are not and will not rise above a 2nd or 3rd grade education level by their own volition. Should the state intervene in these cases? I dunno, the answer to the question is not as "easy" as many make it out to be. The idea of barely getting through 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' at the age of 16 should be appalling, and it IS happening in some American homeschooler families.
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@think___y It follows the @CollegeBoard CED for each specific subject
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At 17, I pitched my school's founder to let me build the AP social science edtech. (AP = Advanced Placement.)
That was 2 months ago. Today the practice test results are in.
AP Human Geography (13 students): avg 5.00
AP US History (9 students): avg 5.00
AP World History (9 students): avg 5.00
A 5 is a perfect score. The national average on these exams is a 2.91. Only 14% of students ever score a 5.
In just 6 weeks of using the program, students' practice test scores jumped:
Student 1: 1 → 5
Student 2: 2 → 5
Student 3: 2 → 5
Every student got there through advanced, personalized edtech. ( @AlphaSchoolATX is the future of education )
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@pxielovee I guess you need a history lesson. Obamacare was written by and for insurance companies. THAT IS THE PROBLEM.
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This is the second Republican account I’ve seen complaining about insurance and hospital bills and its so confusing… you guys literally VOTED for this.
That’s what your party does!!!Defend health insurance CEO’s and yell socialism whenever someone tries to change the system!!!
Libs of TikTok@libsoftiktok
Last week I randomly got a $9,000 bill for a hospital visit from last year. I called them up and they said my insurance decided not to cover it. Why? Because. .@Aetna can just decide they’re not interested in covering something and then you’re left with an inflated bill to pay out of pocket after the fact. This is in addition to a $2,000 bill that I already paid. They just don’t want to cover it despite me paying a monthly premium. Meanwhile illegals get free healthcare. Honestly fuck you @Aetna. I’m gonna do everything I can to destroy you.
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