“Radicals are not my cup of tea, but I’m grateful for them.”
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Conner Thomas retweeted
DON’T RUN FROM THE BIG BLUE BELT 😼
ALT College Gameday picking the wrong team, again :)
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This is the type of inverted truth we’re seeing everywhere: capitalism, the system that has lifted billions from poverty and produced the world’s wealthiest multiracial societies, is “white supremacy.” It’s an assertion so detached from reality that it suggests something psychologically unwell.
On CNN NewsNight, The Atlantic’s Jemele Hill argues that capitalism is oppressive and bound up in white supremacy.
Kmele Foster: “It's one thing to not think capitalism isn't working ideally. It's another thing entirely to insist that it is oppressive, that it is bound up with white supremacy.
Hill: “How is it not?”
Foster: “I've always preferred Adam Smith's description of capitalism as the natural system of liberty. The idea that people can own property, that they can exchange it freely with one another for profit, that they can find ways to put their resources to good use and profit in a way that is actually beneficial to everyone else, that there can be gains from trade that are mutually beneficial. These are foundational ideas that have created more wealth than any other system in human history. That is what capitalism is! That is not white supremacy.”
Hill: “Do you think capitalism has always worked that way?”
Foster: “I've actually just described the basic facts of the economics.”
Hill: “That ain't how it's always worked.”
Foster: “Slavery is an institution that is older than writing. It predates capitalism. The notion that white supremacy and all these other things are bound up with capitalism in an intrinsic and fundamental way is so absurd and laughable, it barely needs to be defended.”
Hill: “How was it absurd?”
Foster: “It barely needs to be defended.”
Hill: “What do you mean it barely needs to be defended?”
Foster: “You actually have to articulate what the connections is. How are these two things the same? I'm talking about private property, the right to exchange and sell with whomever you like. What does that have to do with white supremacy? … What is the white supremacy dynamic of private property?“
Conner Thomas retweeted
Most Americans don’t understand what socialism is.
It’s not universal healthcare.
It’s not affordable housing.
It’s not what Nordic countries do.
Confusion is making socialism appeal to those who never lived it.
People who have, reject it.
Conner Thomas retweeted
Sometimes you don’t even know when you’ve already watched the end.
You had to be there. And now it’s over.
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Well, AI companies purchased copies of books to use for the purpose of developing information systems. ISIS looted and destroyed historical monuments for religious reasons. So, pretty different!
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The DSA-left is going to costs us two senate seats and a governorship, and honestly that maybe what needs to happen to wake up party leadership and democratic voters. These little games we’ve been playing, not taking things seriously is going to cost us, but ultimately we did this to ourselves.
Frightening (and likely even scarier to the median voter) that the leading Democratic nominee for Wisconsin Governor cannot give a straight up answer on police abolition.
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Emma sweetheart, you are not getting off that easy.
Not only did you believe his lies and let this man gaslight you politically, you attacked people who had common sense and two eyes and could see the warning signs from a mile away.
I do not need to be paid, and I certainly was not paid, to get on TV and say that as a Black girl who comes from two working-class immigrant parents and grew up in the South, I do not believe a white man with a Nazi tattoo and a history of allegations about aggressive behavior toward women is going to connect with real working-class voters.
Do you know why? Because working-class people have values. They work hard for what they have. They dream of giving their kids a better life than the one they grew up with. They do not stoop down for every shiny penny.
You were so wrapped up in your hatred for the Democratic Party that you backed a candidate who has now put us in a worse position to gain the Senate majority.
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California 🤝 @AnthropicAI
We're entering a partnership to strengthen cybersecurity and provide @ClaudeAI to state agencies — and California local governments — at a 50% discount.
The Golden State helped build Silicon Valley — and every Californian should benefit from the responsible use of their latest innovations.
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It’s metastatic bone cancer that spread from the prostate. They caught the bone issue quite early and with radiation and hormone therapy it’s under control, but he will live with cancer for the rest of his life. Listen man- I understand if you don’t like my Dad’s politics and you hate me because you believe everything Fox News has told you. I’m fine with that, but my Dad has cancer. How is that an issue you want to attack. What sickness is in you that makes that fair game Patrick.
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My ideology is so smart and sophisticated, that's why it has never succeeded anywhere on Earth, while your globally successful ideology is actually naive and incoherent. That makes perfect sense to me.
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Someone in the crowd just handed Koby Brea their baby and he took the baby and got a picture with Coach Pope.
This team sure is fun to cover 😼
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Born a year after Edwin Hubble discovered that our Milky Way galaxy was just one of countless other galaxies that populate the universe.
Smart, kind, and gentle. Not sure if they make 'em like that anymore. RIP Jimmy Carter (1924 - 2024).
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Just got done playing “ricankilla722” randomly on Madden. Got on the headset. Good game and convo bro! Some good laughs too! lol. 🫡
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I don’t love the FAA, but I feel for them here. They’re being asked to explain something that – as far as they’re concerned – doesn’t exist & didn’t happen.
“What is happening in the sky? We demand answers!”
FAA: “Ok, can you show us what you saw?”
“Here! This light!”
FAA: “Oh, that’s an airplane. It’s on approach to EWR”
“What about this one?”
FAA: “Well, Governor, that’s the Orion Constellation. It will be there tomorrow night, too, and every night after”
“Fine. But you can’t explain this!”
FAA: “Actually, that’s a helicopter. When we clean up the video, you can see the…”
“Shoot them down!”
FAA: “What the…shoot what down?”
“I don’t know, just shoot one down so we can find out”
The FAA is in kind of an impossible position. Sure, some secret drones may exist. Maybe they even flew in NJ at some point. But as far as the FAA are concerned, every video is either an airplane, star, planet or proves to be faked / altered. They’re tasked with finding something that essentially doesn’t exist, and people assume they have some magic radar that tracks every object in the sky all the time…like they can go back & figure out which bird was flying on Tuesday at 9:00 & where it has built its nest.
It doesn’t work like that. If you’re the FAA, you’re exasperated that the press keeps hyping this stuff up when they really should know better.
(It’s the planet Venus, by the way)
Let’s see how well you all know the sky! This video from @ABC7 shows something unique, that they admit could be something natural, but they’re not sure. They suspect it has something to do with the alleged drone activity.
What do YOU think it is?
