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Grad Student, history lover, bring it, I’m just hear to shout at windmills

Joined June 2020
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Just figured out that we are becoming a nation of Britta Perry’s. In a bad way.
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@Timcast Tim, I am a graduate student on multiple scholarships. If a single tweet from me is leaked, I risk expulsion and inability to have a career in my field due to the director of my school pushing Anti-Racism on the students, not to mention the end of my friend group.
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@Timcast You have incredible leverage. I don't. If I get cancelled, there is no fighting back. There is no speaking out. I don't have a platform. I won't have the means to file a suit. I need people like you to help.
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@VisitMV So…you what else don’t you believe in this statement?
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@JoyAnnReid Yes it was designed for guilty verdicts to be based on evidence.
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@Timcast Instead of calling people out who have to be anonymous or not have a career, use your leverage to prop people and support avenues for people to speak up.
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@travisakers A Supreme Court nominee doesn’t have an answer, do you?
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@JAC40285573 @JoJoFromJerz You did get an investigation that said he did nothing. Do you want another one?
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@WajahatAli Do you have the capacity to have another argument?
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@MythinformedMKE I love how we are just going to forget about Stanford and Son, The Jeffersons, Blackish, the Cosby Show or the myriad of hyper successful black shows that don't have carlton.
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@nhannahjones Correct from your paper. Black man with warrants for violent felonies and who was the subject of the 911 call, walked away from police after fighting with them to probably get a knife from his car seat. All the facts.
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@petestrzok Weren’t you fired because of impropriety?
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@mmcodd @KateHydeNY Well...convinced is a strong word.
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@jeffseeteenak @CanAditude Can’t wait until someone call the police on you and you get out in jail for hanging out with a friend.
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@sullydish @libsoftiktok A sane adult would deflect the question instead of holding court about his sexuality with other peoples children.
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@hologram_stan @peterboghossian @becomethesignal I didn't think that the argument for murdering someone would be "well, they shouldn't exist" but here we are.
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@LCPSMSAAC Hey remember when this wasn’t going to happen and @ConceptualJames was just being paranoid?
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@NYCMayor No officers were lost.
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@thereidout @AnandWrites Equitable speech is, by definition, not free speech.
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@PamelaA76944572 @Geaux_Liberty @thehill The idea that parents need to be experts on education before they are allowed to comment is the most elitist notion on the planet. How's this for a good idea: Parents shouldn't have to sign an NDA to see the curriculum.
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@Lcmwriter100 @realchrisrufo If no one is doing it then why is it such a problem that it’s been banned in schools.
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@Tobesole19 @TimRunsHisMouth @CNN Does the pride logo shield the ball players from gun fire?
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@ConceptualJames “My time to shine boys!”
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@WajahatAli @SirajAHashmi His shield was offering to donate his liver?
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@KayMathers1 @politico Yes the pattern is that you made those things up.
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@greg_price11 Grosskreutz was carrying a firearm at the time, creating an unsafe environment and a lost the right of self defense when KR shot. - The Defense in 30 minutes.
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@freshprince84 @JoyAnnReid Yes, Just like how Chauvin was found innocent. Oh wait.
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@redsteeze It is Schrodinger's theory. It is both exactly what it is when proponents describe it and not what it is when opponents describe it.
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@mkraju Filibuster requires 60 votes. 49 isn’t even a majority.
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@LawSelfDefense How many more minutes will the prosecution make the defenses case for them?
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@WashBlade Counter-point: Don't "accidentally" simulate oral sex on a woman in the front row.
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@JordanSchachtel They are only supposed to be experts in constitutional law. Why are you looking at them for wisdom?
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@ConceptualJames Weird. My Uber driver just asked if I had a big cock. He didn’t even see me naked and just knew I had a monster dong.
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@nhannahjones I forgot the collary: not by the color of their skin unless they are Asian and came to the US after 1964.
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@grantstern Literally the only way you will ever see this chant is in your imagination.
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@PaganLady3 @TheAtlantic @FbrCindy How can you trust a doctor that said the goal is zero disease. The best vaccines doesn’t stop it at 100%, meaning that there is no risk assessment that could end the restrictions. How does that build confidence in you that they are doing what is best for the public?
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$1,000,000,000,000 just so that a person with 50k debt now has 40k debt.
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This could cost more than ObamaCare, as @McCormackJohn pointed out, and without any authorization from Congress. BREAKING: Penn-Wharton pegs Biden's Academia bailout potential cost at $1 trillion
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@mtracey Putin had invaded Ukraine, twice, before that happened.
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@ggreenwald The reason, of course, is systemic racism.
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@ChrisCuomo Your Brother killed tens of thousands of nursing home residents because of bad policy and covered it up to make 5 million from a book deal.
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People who can't understand it don't remember when Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy were on Oprah and ever morning show telling people that vaccines caused autism. This makes total sense if you paid any attention to the culture over the last 20 years.
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Continued vaccine refusal in spite of overwhelming evidence of both safety and effectiveness is one of the most puzzling and tragic political movements of this or any American age.
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@shaunking I want the full video not just 10 seconds. We need to know everything.
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@axolotl_comrade @NYConservtarian @nypost Because good parenting doesn’t result in a 13 year old involved in gang activity?
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@JW1983KY @AlisynGayle @CoryBooker You are making up a situation where it would be ok for a police officer to stand by while someone is violently murdered with a knife all because you don't want cops.
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@Puckdaddy7 @JAC40285573 @JoJoFromJerz If you were obvious falsely accused of rape and it was proven that you were never in the room with the victim why would you need more than four days?
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@PattyArquette @VinSidious @tomselliott You also have enough money to no care about inflation.
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Every thing that she has done in public makes me think Megan Markle is a huge asshole.
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@EricBoehlert They just burned down a public housing building, delaying many people from getting homes.
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@ZaidJilani What does black history month have to do with it?
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@justinjm1 Chase Boudin wasn’t even born when the last Republican mayor was elected in San Fran.
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@DrIbram He wasn’t unarmed. Seems like a pretty gigantic point to make.
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@danielryan_920 @mattdizwhitlock Business moving itself is fine. President of the US pressuring an organization to leave a state by calling a perfectly legitimate (though debatable) bill Jim Crow on Steroids isn’t.
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@hologram_stan @peterboghossian @becomethesignal A healthy society doesn't produce people who think that murder is a convincing argument for their political side. That is the definition of fascism.
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@JamesSurowiecki @jwilcox79 "we do not condemn these gatherings as risky for COVID-19 transmission. We support them as vital to the national public health and to the threatened health specifically of Black people in the United States." Does that sound like "outdoors doesn't transmit the virus?"
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@AGHamilton29 There was a whole movie about how Lincoln needed democratic votes. It was nominated for 11 oscars.
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Noted legal scholar and slipknot expert Bubba Wallace.
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NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace says Rittenhouse would have got life if he were Black
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@reckonsouth @nhannahjones @EmoryUniversity @ProfCAnderson When is there going to be a public debate between @profcanderson and a historian such as David McCullough or John Mecham on this issue? Why is it that they seem to fear public debate on these ideas?
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@ConceptualJames In his defense, the generation after the genocide usually has a higher life expectancy.
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@SimpsonsQOTD "You're in Bronson, missouri!"
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@pewresearch What is this supposed to show? How hispanic someone is?
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@mmerrit5 @Scott_Da_Sith @KyleKulinski So I take it that because you work for your boss he can film you taking a shit?
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@HenriettaSnacks @shaunking Agreed. That should be grounds for removal from the dept. I honestly can’t believe that it isn’t a federal requirement.
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@exiled_Lover @TODAYshow @SavannahGuthrie Heard contradicted her own evidence during her testimony.
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@JamesSurowiecki @jwilcox79 No. That isn't what they said.
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@Timcast Tim, you equated this to signing the Declaration of Independence. Maybe tone it down.
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@steampunkstupid @MattWalshBlog If it is socially constructed, why is it so important to be considered a woman?
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@Dee_Easley @PamelaA76944572 @Geaux_Liberty @thehill Both of those things have been taught for decades. The school board issues also include graphic depictions of sex in elementary schools and school boards covering up rape in their bathrooms. Tell me how a parent doesn't have a right to complain about that?
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@JoJoFromJerz You mean nothing? Cause he was cleared in every investigation and it isn’t even clear that CBF knew Kavanaugh.
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That…that is what school choice prevents from happening.
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@thomaschattwill Trump was never held in contempt of an allies parliament. That seems like a big deal for our standing with our allies.
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@chumpsupporter2 @CraigMacJ @thehill Loundon county school board covered up the rape of a teen and the sexual assault of another because it would damage their genderless bathroom policy and makes parents sign NDA's before seeing the curriculum set by the people they voted into office. That is the issue.
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@NYGovCuomo you would be done in two weeks of you lift the restrictions and fines.
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@ConceptualJames She redefined comedy from something that was funny to something that wasn’t funny.
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@youngb_w @tomheaded @jimsciutto Holding the decapitated head of the sitting president = politely telling the president to fuck himself?
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I’m taken back to when @nhannahjones got in a Twitter spat with @PhilWMagness over his criticism of #1619Project and then tried to cite his book without knowing he wrote it.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones ( @nhannahjones ) on Ida B. Wells and backlash against The 1619 Project: “The attacks on my work are really just part of a lineage of what happens when Black women and Black women journalists [are] there to challenge power.”
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@ConceptualJames Pictured: Obvious notoriety.
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@mmerrit5 @Scott_Da_Sith @KyleKulinski If he followed you into the bathroom while yelling, that is considered workplace harassment and I would support you taking the claim to HR and suing him.
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@ConceptualJames Teaching a sociological theory as truth to kid who haven’t developed critical thinking skills is scary.
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@ElieNYC @redsteeze I forgot that viruses only transmit while in a car and not when you are talking loudly with other people.
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Truly disgusting lie peddled by a person with millions of viewers.
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@A_Minassian @JaniceDean @brianstelter Chris Cuomo covered for his brother while tens of thousands of nursing homes patients were dying because of his policies.
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@mikereinholz777 @ggreenwald Yes it is. You are providing proof right now.
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@JamesSurowiecki @jwilcox79 And why wasn’t it ok to go to the movies with kids but ok to go to a left wing protest surrounded by thousands of people shouting?
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@BradfordKitson @BruinJustine @MaxBoot The founders created the senate for this exact reason. Because Virginia had the most people.
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@EhcksTGD @RoonKolos @noname So the system that created the Great Leap Forward, or the Holodomor, both of which involved government take over of grain production for the greater good, didn't cause the deaths of tens of millions.
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@mattyglesias My entire life I have been told that I am a racist for disagreeing with affirmative action. So, I have no sympathy.
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@MrPBnJ @SecretaryPete Well, if I know anything its that Nissans are programed to hit black people specifically.
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@shaunking That money ever get to the Rice family?
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@jim_lacroix @VisitMV You mean, like federal law. Like, I don’t know, crossing the border without being properly processed by border control? Like that kind of law?
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@LawSelfDefense Except that charge was dismissed!
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@Lcmwriter100 @GorgeousNorge @realchrisrufo No, it’s about telling teachers that they can’t have secret conversations about children’s sexuality and their own sex lives from parents.
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@clairlemon @Timcast How does transferring minority residents to these places make it better, especially a population with such a violent and oppressed history?
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@JamieBonham5 @Mr_Hank_Scorpio @kathygriffin “Passive racism” means that you get to smear a 17 year old kid for being in the middle of a powder keg awkwardly trying to get through it? Plus, CNN has already paid him a 50mil settlement because they smeared him.
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@Victor_M_Short @andraydomise @_BarringtonII Again, slavery is anti-capitalist in nature. The whole theory depends on negotiation between two people for a fair price. That doesn't occur in slavery.
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@Dee_Easley @PamelaA76944572 @Geaux_Liberty @thehill Let me guess, is it racism? I guess if it racism, then the parents really don't get to complain about sexual abuse and graphic sexual imagery. It's almost as if calling someone a racist solves all of your problems instead of dealing with them.
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@mmerrit5 @Scott_Da_Sith @KyleKulinski Also, if you had to go to the bathroom to avoid your boss yelling at you, then your boss is creating a toxic environment that is unprofessional and unsuitable for meaningful work.
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@marclamonthill @realchrisrufo @ConceptualJames Was the baiting Chris into sounding like a white supremacist part of that civility? Or was the gloating that Chris couldn't say something he liked about being white part of it?
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@benshapiro I foresee a 5-4 SCOTUS decision in our near future.
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@hologram_stan @peterboghossian @becomethesignal Your response indicates you support murder of political opponents. Never said I was persecuted because I live in a free country where people generally frown on supporting the idea of murdering people you disagree with.
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@MythinformedMKE I remember when I was taught about the concept of a flat tax in my elementary school while learning how to spell both flat and tax.
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