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"Virtue signalling" is the explanation you come up with if people having empathy is totally beyond your understanding.
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First step : Support a leader that embodies Starfleet values like diversity, inclusion and
ethical behavior.
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Can't believe the woke liberal elite have brainwashed him into forgetting how to spell his name.
Laurence Fox’s London mayor hopes end after errors filling in forms dlvr.it/T4lCtb
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🚨 HUGE NEWS: Campaigners in the UK are to finally "get their country back."
👇🏻 Join #BrokenNews this #SaturdayMorning for the details!
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You've got to feel for Tory donors.
As Colin from Portsmouth says, these days you can't even be racist without being called a racist 😪
Do they flag github.com/GoogleContainerTo… as "not an officially supported #Google product" because it's likely to be supported for longer that way?
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boeing: you can’t bring more than 3 ounces of shampoo on board because we care about your safety
me: ok and the doors will definitely stay on the plane?
boeing: …IF they fall off, it won’t be because of shampoo
I mean, he's not wrong. Thing is, though, is that it's the Tories are the extremist group who are a threat. theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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A quick reminder about Lee Anderson. He did not succeed in the Tory party despite being dreadful. He succeeded because he was dreadful inews.co.uk/opinion/lee-ande…
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A few days late to this debate, but I think part of the reason satirical depictions of fascism, especially in sci-fi settings, often struggle and are adopted by fascists is they tend to make the fascists good at war, a thing fascists value, but were historically rubbish at. 1/
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It isn't news that he fundamentally doesn't understand how anything works, but it still astounds me that Trump conceives of NATO as a tributary empire, where states pay us for protection, rather than, you know, an alliance where we all pay for our armies & fight together.
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As we've known for some time now, Trump is pro-Putin. Indeed, he's attracted to most demagogues, because he himself aspires to be one.
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Finally, a bona fide Brexit benefit!
