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if the loop gets borng
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A shame they didn’t make deer head cheese and get prion disease.
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I hope you feel better!
And I know you didn’t ask, but lately I’ve discovered the “family ghosts” podcast and find that hearing about other people’s messed up families makes me feel less alone in these messed up times.
Just curl up the couch, under a blanket, with that bottle of whatever it is you have, and enjoy…
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The better to light it on fire?
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It’s easy to get around those barricades. Protesters back in the summer found out it’s easy to take em apart with hex wrenches which are sold at a ton of places.
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They should just put an outhouse over it.
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Great tune but…uh…avoid bridges for a bit…'kay?
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When you’re sliding into first and your pants are about to burst…
…it’s a deep state conspiracy involving a pizza joint, fluoridated drinking water and the pasteurization of milk to blame.
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Glad I voted in person, but furious at the disenfranchisement of any of the unprecedented number of voters who mailed ballots in.
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Perhaps more than just a sternly written letter this time around. I’m so f’g tired of the pussy foot’n around.
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I am looking forward to the analysis of which mail in votes seemed to have gone missing.
A quick scan suggests it is almost all Democratic leaning areas. It’s hard to imagine that is random chance.
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it’s almost like when people ascribe meaning to the stock market they’re making it up.
shocked, not shocked?
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This is super confusing on my end, because the gap for USA/Mexico currency exchange has contracted (around a 30 centavo gap today compared to the normal gap of around 70 centavos up to 1 peso).
I figured the stock traders would be panicking.
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See. TRUE diversity in that big tent party… /s
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Maybe half the American people I see are happily (or willingly yet angrily) in the thrall of a mass psychosis and they prefer it that way. I should probably add here that I live in one of the most liberal parts of the state of Texas, but circulate within a wide many-county area proximate to Austin.
I do not recognize much of my own country any more.
I have lived here for over half a century.
I cannot imagine how children and young folk who are growing up are going to internalize all this crap as The New Normal. Will grifting and intentional cruelty and lying with every breath they take become Their New Normal?
I don’t really know how much undoing of racism, sexism and other pathological -isms can be done at this point, until the generation(s) of prejudiced and hateful die off go to their earthly rest. Will those awful people have successfully indoctrinated their offspring, their charges, with their poisonous ways of thinking?
In contrast, he said, the US had seen “net negative” results for most of the past 40 years, meaning people felt the country was headed in the wrong direction.
“That’s corrosive; 40 years of negative feeling,” Farrar said of the United States.
Murdoch-owned press
In Australia – where news outlets owned by Rupert Murdoch have been decried for driving confrontational politics and elevating populist sentiment – “right direction” polls were often negative too.
“A huge reason that our politics is not so extremely polarised and so far out there is because we no longer have Murdoch-owned press in New Zealand, and it’s never taken a foothold,” said David Cormack, the co-founder of a public relations firm and a former head of policy and communications for the left-leaning Green party.
I don’t know how many years you have been a teacher, @anon61221983, but do you see any promising trends in the students who come through your classroom? Are they more interested in being whole healthy human beings willing to claim their own humanity and see it in others?
As a parent, I have seen the friends and classmates of our kid’s generation not bat eye at LBGTQIA+ humans. This is one bright spot that gives me hope.
ETA: Austin-centric disclaimer; grammar
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I’m in a deeply blue area, teaching at an institution that’s majority POC and working class. These are often young people (and sometimes people returning to school) who are working full time, and trying to better their lot by getting a college degree. They also tend to be empathetic, hard working, and interested in improving their communities, too. Not always of course, but they tend to be engaged.
How representative they are of the country is anyone’s guess. I’d guess more so than we think?
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