Kate Pryde @Mutant187 Twitter profile

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Kate Pryde

26 days

SINCE YOU ASKED— my politics don’t fit into a neat little box. I’m left/liberal AND moderate AND left/libertarian. I’m all for saving the planet—AND I know we can do it without banning or “price rationing” every modern technology. #WeWontGoBack to the 1950s—or 1850s—in ANY way!

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2 years

@existentialcoms And also, why not: “is it ethical for corporations that are already making record profits to keep raising the price of bread when families are barely getting by?”

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@amybarnhorst This has been a “practice” pandemic. In the event of a more severe pandemic, most of us would be dead, because—as we have learned—a substantial % of people just won’t follow public health protocols issued by our duly elected leaders. This has been a test; and we have failed it.

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@AmandaMarcotte IT’S NOT JUST OLDER PEOPLE WHO GET SICK OR DIE FROM CORONAVIRUS! And IT’S NOT JUST OLDER PEOPLE WHO NEED THE HOSPITAL BEDS AND RESPIRATORS WHICH CORONAVIRUS PATIENTS WILL OCCUPY!

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3 years

@KatieBassooner @joshtpm Ironically, the original pledge did NOT include that phrase.

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@rebexxxxa “Andy” is short for ANDROID.

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@foxylady1973 @GHMansfield Who is this “someone” we’re all supposed to have with us? An adult family member or close friend who doesn’t have to be AT WORK during the hours when most healthcare takes place?

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@NeuroRebel Unpopular opinion: What would be wrong with letting people park in publicly owned parking—ESPECIALLY overnight, when daytime visitors are gone and the parking is unused? Any way we could get some laws and ordinances changed? (Just add portable toilets, if poop is the “concern”.)

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3 years

@duncant_rex @jnthnwll Making people whose parents aren’t rich take out loans to cover their educations if they want to better themselves is a 40-year Reaganite experiment that has failed. Let’s bring back non-loan financial aid (scholarships) and tuition-free state and local college and trade school!

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@SacredPolitik @kenzietuff AND A MOTHER.

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@GiacalonePhoto @Independent If somebody bombed Pearl Harbor now, a substantial percentage of Americans would refuse to honor nighttime “blackout” regulations. They would say, “I ain’t afraid of no bombs! If YOU’RE afraid the enemy will see where the city is and bomb us, YOU stay home in the dark!”

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4 years

@AmandaMarcotte Stopping the spread of coronavirus benefits EVERYONE! The very temporary measures which may be needed for a few weeks or months will cause setbacks, but these can be mostly alleviated with the right government interventions. (Measures that help people, not just corporations.)

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@patriottakes Kelsey Grammer is no Frasier Crane.

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@mrpatrickdurbin @cvalenti @ExquisiteRebelN Are the children prepared to lose their mother if she has another pregnancy and something goes wrong? Would any older child have been prepared to lose “Mom” in the course of the next child’s birth?

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2 years

@jimmyMSN_CNO Seems like the best choice is to send money—within one’s means—to a reputable local, regional, or national nonprofit.

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2 years

@jimmyMSN_CNO Donate money to the STATE? That’s a new one! But I have heard people who administer charities/nonprofits say they prefer donations of money—which they best know how to spend efficiently to meet the needs at hand—than random food and clothing items, which may be useless at best.

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2 years

@taradublinrocks @atrupar @pattonoswalt Joe Biden loves his family—and he shows it! Bet Don Jr. is jealous. His dad was only affectionate with his sister. (And we’re still wondering about that.)

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2 years

@brokeblackgirl_ Glad to see that not everybody is buying into the “let them sink or swim” mentality that has been prevalent for a while. Times have changed; and in this economy, young people really do need help getting established in life. The kids aren’t lazy, and it’s not wrong to help them.

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7 years

Nobody should have to go without needed surgery. Give if you can--and work for #SinglePayer

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@seynique Remember when gas prices went WAY down because everybody who could work from home did? Let’s do that again!

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2 years

@CathJSweeney And some people are actually trying to bring back the old system. Check out the far right blogs—taking away reproductive choice is only their first goal. We’re not paranoid; they really do intend to bring back the 1950s. (Or the 1650s.)

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@zackoryk @BrianKempGA Star Trek is the future Democrats want. The Handmaid’s Tale is the future Republicans want.

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@_marching_Ents_ @MdSheryl How about using that money to buy her some health insurance, or to help her in some other way? Rather than using it to place his bet that something bad would happen? (YIKES!)

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@KristaLerista Why are some people always looking for an excuse to do genital checks?

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@paulkrugman This would be (even arguably) acceptable ONLY if there were NO AGE DISCRIMINATION against people in their 40s and 50s by employers. (You may not really be too old to work; but if EMPLOYERS think you’re too old to work, then you can’t work!) #StopAgeDiscrimination #Ageism

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3 years

@L_Toczylowski @eyemagistus There is no reason a person should have to take out huge loans to go into public service law. It’s almost like society wanted to discourage people from going into the kind of law that actually helps people.

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@Nicole_Lee_Sch And bottom line, even if she becomes gravely ill or disabled, can never work again, or needs substantial healthcare or caregiving for the rest of her life—she’ll probably be able to cover her expenses. The same is NOT true for most of us. We can’t AFFORD to become seriously ill.

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3 years

@WayOfTheSword @chris_notcapn Which, by the way, has TONS of protein.

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@Phil_Lewis_ “I don’t believe you could make one of the decisions I have to make on a given day“?!? Comedy isn’t exactly the presidency. Or being a triage nurse. Or an air traffic controller.

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1 year

@KwabenaSharif And what career do you think she should have picked? And how much does the education required for THAT career cost?

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2 years

@prxsnwslttr @ROBBYDUDE @internetarchive Reminds me of a SciFi story where somebody downloaded every book ever published—and got busted for copyright violation. Somebody else made a copy, which ended up on the Mars colony. Then Earth was destroyed. And the accumulated knowledge of Earth was preserved only on Mars.

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@RealMuckmaker President Clinton and her husband aren’t in it.

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@ImSpeaking13 @TimHannan You mean it’s not okay to call a murderer a murderer?

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@londyloo What if every university—at least every state university—did that, at least for in-state students? (You know—kind of like the way state universities and financial aid actually USED TO work, when the Boomers went to school.)

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@Thesismis @shaindelr True. Just as with many other forms of evil. Reminds me of those scenes in a story where the villain says “nobody will believe you if you tell them this happened“. See also: “The Big Lie” tactic.

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2 years

@beeragon This looks like a case of organized mass-reporting. There’s no way a given reasonable person would see what you tweeted as “hateful conduct” and find it worthy of reporting.

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@FrostReporter But of course they can never give Harry a prominent place at a family religious event again, because he committed the unforgivable crime of... quitting the family business.

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2 years

For those who think they must read that wretched Tablet Magazine piece for research purposes, attached below are all 8 pages of it. Please don’t give that execrable publication—or its Twitter account—any more clicks. 1/2

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@LatinaMomInLA @MichaelSkolnik And a brain too--what a concept!

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@Idzie Especially children who already exist and need care. And the children who will exist, and will need a livable planet, in the future. (As contrasted with the hypothetical children some people think everyone should want to have at least 8 or 10 of.)

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@Aylawdariston @nonbinarybooty Conservatives don’t want to subsidize education other than STEM and trade school. They want the humanities and liberal arts to be only for those whose parents can pay. They don’t want working class kids to learn history or philosophy—which can lead to questioning the status quo.

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1 year

@AutisticCallum_ In other news, people will say, “we didn’t have ADHD in my day—we just had ‘stupid kids’ who ‘just weren’t cut out for’ anything but ‘a simple job’”. Whereas now, many people are successful in careers and life because they got the right diagnosis and interventions early enough.

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@AngelaLovesNY @JennyBwood The “drugs made me do it” defense never holds up in a court of law.

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2 years

Elon Musk was never a liberal, and his plans for Twitter were never benevolent | Thomas Zimmer

Elon Musk was never a liberal, and his plans for Twitter were never benevolent | Thomas Zimmer

Tech barons’ lip-service to democracy and pluralism was always conditional on preserving their own positions at the top

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@abughazalehkat Do you know for sure that the person who walked you home was someone you could trust? And not someone who was trying to take advantage of you? (And/or even the person who spiked your drink?)

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3 years

@AhmedCanAm @hoofnagle And also, Good mgmt: “PAY WELL”

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@tallowmom But sure—“no judgment” of those who do things differently. 🙄

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1 year

@dustychipura Short answer: if there’s any question, you don’t have time. Play it safe!

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@JoshuaJKeller @binchcity @coffeespoonie Sorry that marriage didn’t work out. There are other fish in the sea—and most have better character.

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3 years

@LPTexas @POTUS ”Ending occupational licensing“ may sound good —until you want the services of a competent professional.

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@saturniidaemon By the way—if dancing is prayer, it’s now legal in public schools.

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6 years

@maxsparber @fordm And Trumpets should probably stay away from Mexican restaurants, too. 🤣🤣🤣

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2 years

@DietCoke_Esq In other words, they say: “Would it be fair to the people the trolley has already harmed to divert it now?”

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1 year

@cooperlund @thesnarkygent And also, we can always pray at home—whereas we can’t do our own medical procedures at home. (Or at least we shouldn’t.)

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@realTuckFrumper It would be nice to see a loving marriage in the White House again.

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2 years

@business Are they by any chance CLAIMING lower projected profits so we won’t call them on their #gouging as they raise prices through the roof?

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@bookandthebone @keirasoup @Mudhooks @MarisaKabas “STOP READING SO MUCH”?!? The 19th Century called, and it wants its medical scam artists back.

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3 years

@duncant_rex @jnthnwll Ah, yes—the economic draft. 😏

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@Eka_FOOF_A @VABVOX @VP And the press actually love Former Guy and his clones, because they’re great clickbait.

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@mistydawnfilm @carolinerenard_ This is EXACTLY the kind of horror story we grew up hearing from older women who had followed the traditional path—and regretted it. And these are EXACTLY the “family values” the far right wants to BRING BACK! The far right shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near power ever again.

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@_thisisthegirl_ @Slatzism She’s basically a single parent.

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4 years

@AmandaMarcotte And it’s definitely not just “young” people who are sacrificing jobs, savings, investments, etc. In fact, the older we are the more we’re losing—with less time to recover. And those who are past working age and relying on their now-depleted retirement portfolios may be worst off.

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2 years

@N3wFl3sh @dandyspompadour @ms_creilly Except that Anne Frank edited her diary expecting that it might be read by others. Although she probably didn’t have time to revise later entries as she might have liked.

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@kimmie9042 @MichaelZarrabi @SHEsus__Christ “The best way to deal with the insanely stressful Christmas season is to be Jewish.” 😉

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@Incindery1 @horny_antifa Somebody convinced Dems that the public DIDN’T like Covid protections, so they changed their tune for fear that not doing so would hurt them in elections. The question is, who’s behind this anti-precautions propaganda—and what their motives are.

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@duncant_rex @jnthnwll You know—the opportunities that were available to the boomers and to several generations before theirs. Before the 1980s. Before Reaganism. Laissez-faire has failed; it’s time for another sea change!

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@patelchief @PopBase Nah—no “misunderstanding” here! He impugned the ability of women w/o kids to make good policy decisions. Or to care about the well being of kids. Or something. Among other issues—what about childless MEN? And what about women like teaching nuns, who devote their lives to kids?

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1 year

@NiceButOdd @BellaRamsey Now tell us about all the murders cis people have ever committed.

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@SonyaShaykhoun @rfordham811 @saltripi66 If these items were taking up any more of the sidewalk width, it might be a problem. But what we see here is probably okay—at least on a wide sidewalk like this one.

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@soulkhan Cool. Hope you’re not afraid of physical violence, because there have been random attacks on people who were (or were perceived to be) Jewish. How are your self defense skills? Are you volunteering to help, if your companion is attacked?

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@L_Toczylowski @eyemagistus Or wanted to keep all but the children of the rich from entering the legal profession. Knowing that the children of the rich will mostly work to support their own class interests, and that few will go into public interest specialties—or, heaven forbid, any kind of ACTIVIST law.

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@VoidOfRoses Yeah—I notice most of the people in this thread who are against public spending to address the problem are doing at least fairly well financially themselves. In other words, the “I’ve got mine” crowd. Also, the NIMBYS and “muh property values” types.

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@cityascanvass @NYUFJPalestine Students should probably seek legal advice on how—and/or whether—to comply. And ideally, some attorneys will volunteer their services pro bono.

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@JayHulmePoet “Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.”

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@Dighthorse Better fitness trainer: the occasional donut is okay.

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@pedalsandgears @julien650 @FrDidymus @R_Denhollander WTF?!? NO driver thinks it’s okay to hit cyclists, whether or not they’re wearing helmets! How about both helmets AND more careful driving? We CAN have both, right?

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@peterbakernyt Why do you “journalists” keep trying to downplay the importance of President Biden—after building Former Guy into a legendary figure? Do you miss having a terrorist in the White House because people clicked on your stories more often when we were living in constant fear?

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@hollowearthterf @MarlaIsAwesome Men were STARTING to change—until the manosphere, “evolutionary biologists”, and fundamentalist religion told them that nah, women prefer “macho men”. (Which most of us actually don’t.)

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@SJRichmond89 @WolfpackHustle @fuelgrannie @PippengerHarlo What you’re advocating is PRICE RATIONING. Which would work as advertised ONLY in a universe where everyone had the same amount—or at least a certain basic amount—of discretionary resources to apportion among various competing “wants”. And that’s not the universe where we live.

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@NakramR @ConSelfOwns @CathyYoung63 Are you sure those voters have “no opinion“? Maybe you just don’t like the way they choose to vote.

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@RachelRoundyOR By the way, have we ever considered how this pervasive meme— the idea that men AREN’T comfortable with a woman who makes more money—gives employers an excuse to keep underpaying & under-promoting women? (“Well, if a woman makes a lot of money, nobody will marry her”—& other BS.)

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@MuellerSheWrote This is what happens when Biff Tannen buys the town square.

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@DoomScroling VOTE WISELY.

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@roslynholcomb @ERnurse86 If this is teaching kids not to vote Republican, then it’s beneficial in at least one way.

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@TheAstuteGaloot Why is he holding her arm like he’s afraid she’s going to get away?

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@acosted @WSJ Flattery? No need to return to the traditional pattern of building up men AT THE EXPENSE OF WOMEN. Equality would be fine.

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@abc7newsbayarea How will closing earlier help? Won’t thieves just do their “shopping” earlier in the day, like everyone else? This hurts legitimate customers without solving any problems.

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@_Kelborn @verysmallriver Genuine free speech? Or yet another attempt at “right wing Twitter”?

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@reynardmuldrake @Deoliver47 It’s like early 2020 all over again. People in the medical profession KNOW what’s up; but much of the public doesn’t—or pretends not to.

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@FeministaJones Some people don’t realize how unwelcome “friendly” approaches by strangers can be. We hear from pundits that we should be “receptive” to such approaches. Bull! We SHOULD be cautious. And we shouldn’t let anyone talk us out of our caution—or out of simply choosing to be alone.

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@RealBotPower @Quicktake No ageism, please! Most of us post-boomers will have to work until we drop. So let’s not even start putting ageist ideas out there.

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@ewansomerville @Telegraph “Trapped in a loveless marriage”? GET A DIVORCE!

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@cmclymer And let’s remember: anything that presented the same ideas in a less sugarcoated form wouldn’t have been able to reach people who are living in traditional cultures and families around the world. Anything harder hitting would have been forbidden in many countries and homes.

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@Harriecook This is NOT Miranda! What are the writers doing to her character? Do they hate her—and/or Steve—that much? Can they not show us ONE good couple who “have it all”? The Miranda and Steve I remember were great people who had marital problems, but worked them out. WTF happened?

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@realgirl_fieri @DownRunnin Unpopular opinion: political beliefs and causes drastically opposed to mine are one of my main “icks”—and I’d rather know about them as soon as possible, before even considering friendship.

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@OleBeeM @WarriorZoltar @BlackKnight10k Huh? People have sex without even LIVING together, much less sharing a bedroom! Remember?

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@MichaelZarrabi The scam by which very high income people and corporations have conned many of the rest of us into voting against our own interests.

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@AthertonKD @nytdavidbrooks Preferably someone who has had to do actual work for a living.

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@jsocprogy1 @JobinJason @IncarneVerite @anthonyvclark20 What those clowns are saying is that “we can’t have nice things” because our country isn’t “ethnically homogeneous”. In other words, they’re racists.

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PEOPLE WANT PARKING. Current residents want parking. New tenants will also want parking. Get it through your thick skulls: PEOPLE WANT PARKING City of 'No': Community Board Members Don't Want Newcomers Stealing 'Their' Parking - Streetsblog New York City

City of 'No': Community Board Members Don't Want Newcomers Stealing 'Their' Parking - Streetsblog...

The road to more housing is paved with lots of people who don't want to give up parking, as the mayor is finding as his City of Yes plan goes forward.

nyc.streetsblog.org

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