Hmm, more tea leaves. Seems like this could be a good or a bad portent.
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His staff was reportedly the āA Teamā. Theyāve propbably seen things to make their skin crawl.
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Stupid is as stipd does.
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H&M makes this thread today by default
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WTF?
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LOLOLOLOL!
US Government employees: āOur boss discriminates against everybody.ā
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Didnāt u no?? White guys are the real victims these days!
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Um.
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You donāt know the half of it, the filing is bonkers.
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An ex con, sexual harassers, an accused pedophile, a narcissistic senile old Nazi clown ā¦ what will they think of next?
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He was pardoned, but his conviction still stands, however that doesnāt seem to be a bar to being elected. He might face a Senate vote to expel him, thatās probably complicated.
It is possible for a felon to serve in the U.S. Congress ā but the House and Senate can vote to expel any member that colleagues deem unfit or unqualified to serve. And even if Stevens does end up winning the election in Alaska, he faces a probable expulsion vote in the Senate. He says heāll appeal his conviction, and he has yet to be sentenced.
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No. Steven. Justā¦ No. They join because they racist, sexist fuckwads.
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Speaking as someone who was a fan of Pinkerās academic work on psycholinguisticsā¦
Pinker has been consistently douchetastic for quite some time. Heās been pushing apologia for fascism ever since Trumpās election.
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This is a big part of the problem. Not your liking of it, but the fact that he has the reputation of ārespected social scientistā. People are bound to give his words more credibility ā including the āknow nothingsā who normally wouldnāt listen to an academic, because heās saying what they want to hear.
This timeline is not good for my anxiety.
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Peter Singer has been making an arse of himself in a similar fashion.
Apart from folks like Mark Bray and George Cicciarello-Maher, US-based academia has not been covering itself in glory lately.
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Thatās a major part of the problemā¦ heās seen as the āgood academicā not the ābad academicā that is up in the ivory tower looking down their nose at the ācommon manā and indoctrinating kids into communism, all while receiving a salary that they donāt deserve. Blahā¦
Because the people who are in positions of power are those willing to stroke the ego of the powerful and to play the game to get into positions where they can wield some influence. Weāre tearing the independent academic system down in favor of a corporatized system that rewards sycophantism over intellectual inquiry.
Weāre fucked, in other words.
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