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“black pregnant people are more likely to be drug tested”

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Hey, jackass, you have to capitalize Black.

If you’re going to call them “pregnant people” you can’t forget to capitalize Black because that cancels out all of the social credits you get for saying “pregnant people”.

Someone get me my baton!!

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“Israel has pulled troops from southern Gaza, and only one brigade remains in the Strip. The IDF says the move does not mean the end of the war is close.”

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Since Egypt is being very helpful by making sure nobody goes anywhere, I have been saying this whole time that Israel needs to fight the war with regular 3-day ceasefires to send in humanitarian aid.

Not only would this help a little to blunt the criticism from the international community of antisemites, but it would give Israel a great opportunity to surveil the hell out of what takes place and who moves from where to where etc etc; given that Hamas will come out to steal all of the candy bars.

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“Butler has a new book out called Who’s Afraid of Gender?”

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Your first hint this is communist horseshit is that she is describing her opposition as ‘fearful’. This is a common Marxist tactic. For example, with mass uncontrolled immigration, they say that you are just afraid of brown people if you oppose it. Xenophobe transphobe homophobe etc etc etc Republicans are always described as scared.

“Scared of change” is another one they use. The goal is just to paint the opposition as dangerous cornered animals who are also irrational. So you aren’t thinking straight and you’re dangerous.

In reality Democrats are just like a homeless guy squatting over the hood of your car to defecate as you try to parallel park and they are screaming “Why are you scared of change??”

Well, will it technically be a ‘change’ if you take a shit on the hood of my car? Yes. But I’m not necessarily scared I just don’t want you to shit on my car.

(NOTE: in this analogy, Democrat policy is the homeless guy’s shit)

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So Michael Walzer thinks that belligerent countries are obligated to allow aid to enemy civilians in the middle of a war. Can he cite a single other country that has done this? The US has employed the tactic of deliberately starving enemy populations in all of its wars.

Why is Israel being required to so something that no one else does? Isn't there anyone around to challenge this hypocrisy?

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Missing from the summary (unsurprisingly) is Shellenberger’s work uncovering censorship in Brazil, which includes arrests and jail for speech. Musk is bravely exposing everything he can on the judge central to the censorship, and if it means no X in Brazil, he will take the loss.

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Michael Walzer says a "best case" solution to the Gaza war is "a political way of dealing with Hamas"? Seriously? Give up and leave Hamas in power? Israel has conducted this war with the least impact to civilians in the history of urban warfare (https://www.newsweek.com/more-accurate-accounting-war-gaza-opinion-1880784), but since you can't get to zero, the answer is "give up"? Great news for future terrorists: Human shields make you immune from losing!

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“Some polls show Trump leading Biden with young voters, and Biden beating Trump among those over 45. Is an age inversion underway? “

I don't believe this for a minute. Over 45s think Biden deserves their vote? Did they only poll suburban white women who were blotto on wine? But then it IS Politico.

“”A man in Quebec has had two healthy fingers amputated to relieve “body integrity dysmorphia.” The patient “was so desperate to get rid of his fingers he contemplated building a small, makeshift guillotine.””

Wow is he nuts. Now if he wanted to delete his nuts, that’s totally fine and understandable.

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“Today hundreds of schools across North America, from Texas to Ontario, are closing in order to protect pupils from sustaining lifelong injuries—from the sun.”

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The teachers unions are going to need $400 billion for COVID air filtration systems and then $500 billion for protective eclipse-viewing glasses and then $600 billion for special helmets to protect them from Putin’s Havana Syndrome Ray Gun.

Luckily, there will be no cost for me to tell you wether or not this is a gigantic communist scam.

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“Speaking of big dudes fed up with the left, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has ruled out endorsing Joe Biden again in 2024”

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Aaron Rupar, who is a parasitic Democrat piece of shit, on Twitter responded to this by saying The Rock’s statement was a “cowardly word salad”.

Please understand that every time you see someone online using the term ‘word salad’ in a way that makes no sense to describe something that isn’t a word salad, that person is either being handled by the IC or working for a sock puppet NGO.

They focus grouped ‘word salad’ and found it was effective for introducing confusion frustration etc etc. Many other examples like this.

Also, most of the racism you see online is from government actors or Democrat NGO’s pretending to be racist people on the right.

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“Colleges will soon be charging $100,000 a year. How did this happen, and who out there wants to contribute to my daughter’s 529?”

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Literally a 10,000x worse scam than Trump University.

Eliminate all funding loans grants etc and turn the buildings into prisons for illegals.

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Too bad you buried the discussion regarding British Muslims towards the very end. That is a big story that deserves much greater focus. I have read that in Londons sister city Dearborn many of the weekend demonstrators shouted death to America along with the usual kill the jews. Again worthy of discussion.

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Another Boeing incident, see how that DEI fetish works?

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This eclipse is a good example of how EVERYTHING gets an emotional tinge to it that is just not helpful or needed. On the one hand I'm told this is the most fascinating thing ever; on others, that I should be very fearful, that NASA is launching rockets into the shadow named after some ancient Sumerian (or something) God (I suppose many of you have no idea what I am referring to, since you don't go the mostly but not entirely crazy places I do) and Indiana is declaring a STATE OF EMERGENCY!!!

Imagine being a kid nowadays. Everyone is telling you what to feel. On the one hand you feel guilty or odd if you don't feel ecstasy watching what in effect is not so very different from a cloud passing over the sun. On the other THE WORLD IS ENDING.

When everything has a strong emotional valance then nuance and simple pleasures simply vanish. It's not hard to see that as a goal for someone, although seeing it as an outcome of the increasingly strong measures needed to get the attention needed to make money is not unreasonable either; but seeing it as a reality is I think necessary.

There is a continuum to be drawn between one strong state of emotion and another, but a completely different continuum between strong emotion and calm tranquility. That second continuum seems to be largely invisible to most Americans nowadays. We spend much too little time in silence, away from screens, and in the presence of trees and flowers.

Even now, I am getting pictures of fields full of people filming the eclipse with their phones.

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“Some polls show Trump leading Biden with young voters, and Biden beating Trump among those over 45. Is an age inversion underway? “

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For the 12 millionth time, polls are not conducted the way elections are. They try to conduct polls fairly.

Elections, on the other hand, are conducted by hiring teams of nightclub promoters and street hustlers to aggressively oversample Democrats. Do a poll like that and I’ll listen.

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Colleges charge more and more because the feds give loans.

Ever since, colleges have spent big bucks on bowling alleys, food courts, dorms that rival swanky hotels, and celebrity professors' salaries. All the while, the quality of education has declined. It's obscene.

Let colleges give loans. Or scholarships. You'll see how fast college costs come down.

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So a person named “Wakeman” decided not to automatically report drug use affecting the unborn of minority women, in the name of equity. (1) Well isn’t the unborn baby, which is presumably a minority, at risk of an inequitable outcome from sustained maternal drug use? (2) The name checks out, the universe rhymes, etc.

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