For many of us, ASL is just our reality. I can read English, but I can't hear it or speak English. It's not a choice for me and it's incredibly frustrating that I can't interface with the world with my preferred language. Debating ASL interpreters taking up TV screen space is one thing. Mocking ASL itself is another. Just don't do it.
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For many of us, ASL is just our reality. I can read English, but I can't hear it or speak English. It's not a choice for me and it's incredibly frustrating that I can't interface with the world with my preferred language. Debating ASL interpreters taking up TV screen space is one thing. Mocking ASL itself is another. Just don't do it.
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This is what a "defender of democracy" looks like now: Trump is an existential threat, and also, somehow, "I'm with Venezuela."
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🚨 BREAKING: Brown University Police Chief’s past Ties link campus de-policing, University of Utah activism, and Emirya Fanaeian 🚨
Brown University Police Chief Rodney Chatman, who oversees campus safety, previously worked at the University of Utah, where Emirya Fanaeian was a student. Chatman resigned from Utah after attempting to reform the university’s police department and later took his position at Brown. His efforts coincided with student-led campaigns, including those supported by Fanaeian, to reduce campus policing in the wake of Lauren McCluskey’s murder.
At Brown University, Chatman recently faced an unanimous vote of no confidence back in October for the charge of having "directly contributed to an all-time low in morale and has strained the department’s ability to effectively serve the Brown University community."
At the University of Utah, the student campaign to scale back policing was led by Emirya Fanaeian, the same leader of SLC Armed Queers.
Brown University Police Chief Rodney Chatman, who oversees campus safety, previously worked at the University of Utah, where Emirya Fanaeian was a student. Chatman resigned from Utah after attempting to reform the university’s police department and later took his position at Brown. His efforts coincided with student-led campaigns, including those supported by Fanaeian, to reduce campus policing in the wake of Lauren McCluskey’s murder.
At Brown University, Chatman recently faced an unanimous vote of no confidence back in October for the charge of having "directly contributed to an all-time low in morale and has strained the department’s ability to effectively serve the Brown University community."
At the University of Utah, the student campaign to scale back policing was led by Emirya Fanaeian, the same leader of SLC Armed Queers.
You are a false prophet. Do you know why I say that? Because I talked to @LarryTaunton in person, who is one of the few people who have talked to actual migrants en route: they were pushed out by political situations and into hellish situations where they were murdered and raped en route.
He talked to them. None of them wanted to leave their home.
Our taxpayer dollars destabilized their countries and caused them to flee their homes.
Our taxpayer dollars forced them to undergo a journey where many would be raped and killed.
You do not get to pretend to be virtuous when we say, “enough, stop this cycle.” Because you have zero interest in addressing the root cause. You screamed the loudest when USAID was cut. You screamed the loudest when intelligence agencies were questioned. You said nothing when it came to questioning why these organized caravans were pushing people across the border.
Instead, you just advocate for the cycle to be repeated so your grift can go on at the expense of millions, and play on our literal souls and Jesus to guilt trip that into continuing.
Repent.
He talked to them. None of them wanted to leave their home.
Our taxpayer dollars destabilized their countries and caused them to flee their homes.
Our taxpayer dollars forced them to undergo a journey where many would be raped and killed.
You do not get to pretend to be virtuous when we say, “enough, stop this cycle.” Because you have zero interest in addressing the root cause. You screamed the loudest when USAID was cut. You screamed the loudest when intelligence agencies were questioned. You said nothing when it came to questioning why these organized caravans were pushing people across the border.
Instead, you just advocate for the cycle to be repeated so your grift can go on at the expense of millions, and play on our literal souls and Jesus to guilt trip that into continuing.
Repent.
Reminder: the AFL-CIO is literally one of the four core NED grantees as appointed by Congress, and for a few years, was the top grantee as they were considered the most destabilizing next to CIPE, NDI, and IRI. But they grifted this money so badly and caused a massive partisan scandal in France, that NED was forced to pass a rule that no one of the grantees could get a disproportionate amount at the risk of Congress would capitulating and pulling NED funding altogether.
Whenever you see AFL-CIO post something, know it’s not on member dues. It’s on our taxpayer money.
Whenever you see AFL-CIO post something, know it’s not on member dues. It’s on our taxpayer money.
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What kind of logic is even that? Money going to troops sooner rather than later is somehow stealing from troops? Particularly if it's in the form of a direct transfer as opposed to some abstract "affordable housing" subsidy which undoubtedly goes to landlords? Why does this asinine rationale even have 18K likes?
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At this point, regardless of whether one supports tariffs or not, it should be clear that "tariffs cause inflation" is false. The record simply does not support it. If this fails under real-world observation, why doesn't that call into question all economical science claims in general? We heard almost every single mainstream economist predicting runaway inflation as a result of tariffs. It didn't happen. Ergo, why should we be trusting any modern economics in general?
And when do we stop treating tariffs as a uniquely destructive policy tool, and instead acknowledge what they actually are: a choice about what is taxed, as opposed to the individual?
At this point, regardless of whether one supports tariffs or not, it should be clear that "tariffs cause inflation" is false. The record simply does not support it. If this fails under real-world observation, why doesn't that call into question all economical science claims in general? We heard almost every single mainstream economist predicting runaway inflation as a result of tariffs. It didn't happen. Ergo, why should we be trusting any modern economics in general?
And when do we stop treating tariffs as a uniquely destructive policy tool, and instead acknowledge what they actually are: a choice about what is taxed, as opposed to the individual?
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At this point, regardless of whether one supports tariffs or not, it should be clear that "tariffs cause inflation" is false. The record simply does not support it. If this fails under real-world observation, why doesn't that call into question all economical…
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Here’s what you don’t understand: this isn’t just Elon’s question, it’s all our question. Because you all act just that gae.
Why are the EU Commisars so gae?
Answer, please.
Why are the EU Commisars so gae?
Answer, please.
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Gavin, the difference between you and me is that I don’t consider hundreds of thousands of overdoses to be a bragging point. How can you make this kind of post with a straight face (with the big orange $19 sticker and all) and not understand why the rest of us consider California to be a dystopia?
If these words fly over your head, just invite Xi for another visit. Your CCP overlord seems to be the only one who can spur you into actually doing your job of cleaning the streets.
If these words fly over your head, just invite Xi for another visit. Your CCP overlord seems to be the only one who can spur you into actually doing your job of cleaning the streets.
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Going to take a controversial stance here. The “poor kid” you’re referencing was never going to stay in the background. He is actively being groomed into career activism-slash-leadership at the expense of US taxpayer money. He was always setting himself up to extort our collective guilt and dollars. I have negative sympathy for him — I’m glad he got exposed sooner rather than later.
And I can say that confidently as someone who’s walked the talk of being doxxed.
And I can say that confidently as someone who’s walked the talk of being doxxed.
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The only way leftists win arguments is by building strawmen, proclaiming “this is what the opposition thinks,” and then burning those strawmen down
This post is Exhibit A
This post is Exhibit A
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FRIDAY NIGHT THOUGHTS
Many critics have correctly noticed I've worked closely with the Chinese.
I've been an atheist most of my adult life. But for the most part I've been sympathetic with the right wing. And at a point in time, that brought me close to the "China is awesome" wing.
When I traveled to Beijing in 2008, even then, I was amazed at how everything just ... worked. There was no homeless. Society was extremely high trust. China just ... worked. And every visit since confirmed that.
My father, who traveled all over the world for the military, confirmed the same. China ... just works.
Except ... on the last day of the visit wherein I was ready to move to China, which @data_republican can asset to, we got sequestered in a hotel room and we were told to not to peek out out blindfolds. So we did anyway, and saw a very scary military parade of China's missile capability and all that. We witnessed this at the threat of being prisoned for even peeking behind window blinds.
What's the point of this story?
Fast foward to 2020: my husband and I were constrained from the government in everything, in the COVID-19 era.
We had young, restless children.
We went to the local playground, which was closed down.
What did we do?
We tore off the tape. That's all we did.
In China, we would have been shot on the spot. That is the price of trading safety for freedom.
When I hear others speak of Qatar in this way, it hurts at a visceral level.
Qatar is a slave state.
Qatar trades freedom for safety.
Anyone who says Qatar is "good" simply hasn't stayed long enough to see that trade-off.
America is flawed for sure. But America is still the best country in the world.
The only way to center your morality is not in a country, or in an authority. You have to center it in God. There's no other option that solves the cognitive dissonance the world hands to you.
Many critics have correctly noticed I've worked closely with the Chinese.
I've been an atheist most of my adult life. But for the most part I've been sympathetic with the right wing. And at a point in time, that brought me close to the "China is awesome" wing.
When I traveled to Beijing in 2008, even then, I was amazed at how everything just ... worked. There was no homeless. Society was extremely high trust. China just ... worked. And every visit since confirmed that.
My father, who traveled all over the world for the military, confirmed the same. China ... just works.
Except ... on the last day of the visit wherein I was ready to move to China, which @data_republican can asset to, we got sequestered in a hotel room and we were told to not to peek out out blindfolds. So we did anyway, and saw a very scary military parade of China's missile capability and all that. We witnessed this at the threat of being prisoned for even peeking behind window blinds.
What's the point of this story?
Fast foward to 2020: my husband and I were constrained from the government in everything, in the COVID-19 era.
We had young, restless children.
We went to the local playground, which was closed down.
What did we do?
We tore off the tape. That's all we did.
In China, we would have been shot on the spot. That is the price of trading safety for freedom.
When I hear others speak of Qatar in this way, it hurts at a visceral level.
Qatar is a slave state.
Qatar trades freedom for safety.
Anyone who says Qatar is "good" simply hasn't stayed long enough to see that trade-off.
America is flawed for sure. But America is still the best country in the world.
The only way to center your morality is not in a country, or in an authority. You have to center it in God. There's no other option that solves the cognitive dissonance the world hands to you.
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