Libby King @libbyking Twitter profile

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Libby King

3 years

Ok ok, so hear me out. Adoption is a child rights issue not a parent rights issue. Any narrative that centres parenting over vulnerable children is oppression. Make a note of that one so you, too, don’t end up looking like a fool one day.

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Libby King

@libbyking

5 months

@TameeOliveFern Israel’s new talking point to rationalise the defeat.

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4 years

@LukeJWitt_ @CongBaseballFan @majorityfm And worn down by absurdity. They should be at home in bed and everyone knows it. The protester is making that point in a very sophisticated way. They are in a pantomime and he lifted the curtain by entering the stage-or something. Impressive.

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3 months

@mustachetoilet Vance forgot that Diet drinks are not right-wing coded.

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@libbyking

2 years

@PepePierce The idea that family separation is good for children is one of colonialism’s greatest achievements— Thee majority of conservative justices deciding this are themselves adoptive patents and this isn’t even considered a vested interest.

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@libbyking

11 months

@jordannewsdaily Today. It should be today. Right now.

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@libbyking

2 months

@zhaabowekwe And Palestinian culture and symbols are not antisemitic 🇵🇸🫶🏻

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11 months

@jacobkornbluh I can’t get over how cruel, sadistic and terrifying it is to leave children maimed from bombfire without anaesthetic. I will never look at this man without thinking of that.

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@libbyking

4 years

@ceroney @KarenChristensn Narrator: Jesus, Cindy. I hope you’re twelve.

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@libbyking

4 years

@JolyonMaugham Re: kid care. The non-covidy carer (Cummings’ mum or dad?) should have been the one to make the journey. This isn’t complicated. He risked all those on the way, the community in Durham, and both parents-instead of no one on the way, no one in Durham, and one parent. Shocking.

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@libbyking

2 years

@salfordrev @joannasaurusrex @oashton88 My dad was a priest and it was only when he passed that I found out the funeral directors called him when they did funerals for people with no friends or family because he’d take it seriously, make it special. The funeral director cried and told us when collecting his body.

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@libbyking

1 year

@PoetTPetty I visited when I was 8 in 1984. Etched in me. Esp seeing adults whom I respected and who were so wise and caring become tense and fearful of violence and the indignity of public humiliation; the quiet joy of a teenager travelling in a car with us bc they might not be harassed.

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@libbyking

6 years

@MidwinCharles @Mikel_Jollett I think they are more widely referred to as social democracies. They are capitalist, not socialist countries.

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@libbyking

6 months

@JoshuaPHilll I genuinely think he has no idea of the political milieu he’s navigating. There’s a lot of sophisticated analysis & he’s engaging with it like an old man hindered by the darkness of fascism. A somber time for the USA. He should read this thread 👇🏻

Willow Naomi Curry 🇵🇸🇭🇹🔻

@willathewisp

6 months

Watching everything that’s happening as a Gen Z-Millennial cusp (born in ‘96), I see what’s happening to youth on college campuses as, on top of everything else, the logical end point of decades of neglect of and vitriol towards children and young adults. 🧵🪡

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@libbyking

2 years

@PepePierce Perhaps in part because white progressives are actually quite invested in the outcome of this case: That whiter, richer families are better; and, that moving infants and children from poor, brown families to rich, white families is ethical. This is white culture.

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@libbyking

3 years

@katiedimartin Best thing I learned was to replace the comma with a dash; it disrupts meaning with *punctuation* and messes with the whole semiotic system. Why do with words what you can with a dash? So: Best- Libby Thanks- Libby Not: Best, Libby Thanks, Libby

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@libbyking

4 years

@jw_mike @sangria1106 @bessbell @bleahg1 The most important number is the *spread* rate. From that all your little eggs will fall. Good luck, Einstein. #InItTogether 🥚 🐰

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@libbyking

2 years

@fortesalatifi It was life-changing when my partner was diagnosed with severe pre-verbal separation trauma caused by being separated from his mother just moments after birth. He wondered around the house mumbling “pre-verbal” and “severe separation trauma” for weeks. Lotta things made sense.

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@libbyking

4 years

Normalize believing adoptees when they talk about trauma.

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@libbyking

3 months

@moorehn The 4th Geneva Convention, which the USA is a signatory to, has “universal jurisdiction” which means anyone who has committed war crimes can be tried in any signatory county for the rest of their life. Getting prosecutors to press charges is the next step.

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@libbyking

3 years

@MissAnn16112604 @brexit_sham I also can't help but think of @MarkHertling 's talk about the Ukrainian military and especially how they have rooted out corruption and become a modern force over the last decade, while RU forces are riddled with it. UK politics (and ports) riddled with it, too. Not good.

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@libbyking

9 months

@JalalAK_jojo @vivafalastin It’s a serious breach of the Geneva Conventions and they can therefore be tried in any country in the world until the defendant has passed.

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@libbyking

2 years

@brihindthescene Let’s talk about how adoption normalises isolating (practically and legally-both human rights abuses) vulnerable infants and children from everyone who knows them and then telling them they are “lucky”. Lotta abuse flags 🚩🚩🚩

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@libbyking

2 months

@The_Streamr Awful immoral people.

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@libbyking

15 days

Oh holy shitters. Those involved are so massively morally compromised. The peak journalism body covering up war crimes committed against journalists…a disgraceful low.

Zionism Observer

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15 days

1/ The Committee to Protect (some) Journalists is DELETING records of Palestinian journalists from their database, as part of the coverup.

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@libbyking

2 years

@fortesalatifi (And, yes, this was said to be “for the best” because he was being adopted from a single woman into a nuclear family. No one told him that, as with all infants, separation from a gestational parent would cause a secret, inescapable trauma.)

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2 months

@akela_lacy I heard we should start using the words “arms embargo” because “ceasefire” has become the new nothing word, like “two-state solution” is a nothing phrase.

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@libbyking

9 months

@Mont_Jiang Genocide requires the culture of a society to be in a very specific place. It’s hard to watch.

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@libbyking

5 years

@hannahfleche @RangerRickBG @Oreo He’s very sensitive to things that are kind. It’s like an emotional auto-immune thing.

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@libbyking

4 years

@ImpactMovie @DrEricDing Or put other person in one. No moral sweat. What are ethics anyway? 🤷🏻‍♀️

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@libbyking

4 years

@TelePolitics You’d think they’d take the hint, but they’re obsessed with whining. If someone called me racist, sexist etc, I’d wonder why. But they seem to think they’re entitled to be these things without being called out. It’s all ‘poor me wahhhh’. They lack critical thinking skills.

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@libbyking

9 months

@ShaiDavidai Reading your tweets, you seem a big driver behind anti-Palestinian racism & incitement to violence on campus. Seeing you call students who oppose war crimes pro-Hamas & terrorist to dehumanise them has been awful. To oppose genocide is decency; to support genocide is evil.

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@libbyking

9 months

@samhusseini Cruelty is central to the European colonial mindset, I’m afraid.

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@libbyking

11 months

@ProfDBernstein @sarahschulman3 Refugee camp? Internment camp? Ghetto? I agree that open-air prison isn’t the best word as it implies those inside it’s walls and barbed wire have committed a crime.

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@libbyking

6 months

@jamalnlovecraft @TameeOliveFern Mummy, how are refugees made?

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@libbyking

9 months

@CityNewsVAN @cie1947 To equate Palestinian rights with Holocaust denialism is deeply racist, inaccurate, and disturbing. Selina needs to lay off the propaganda and read a book.

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@libbyking

3 years

@DamonLinker Is the sub-culture actually “people who have personally experienced adoption” by any chance? Perhaps they don’t enjoy the same basic rights as you and are saying the next generation of vulnerable infants and children should have those rights respected? Just by any chance…?

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@libbyking

9 months

@ShaiDavidai Your own quote tweet is an example of what you’re pretending to call out. All I’ve seen from your discourse on this is: incitement to violence; duhumanisation; anti-Palestinian racism; and, a clear lack of ethics and morals at both a personal and geopolitical level. Not good.

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@libbyking

5 years

@HoarseWisperer And Don Quixote yells at a windmill ...

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@libbyking

2 years

I live with someone who suffers trauma from a "good" adoption. I'm not sure progressives know how important their solidarity + belief is in managing that trauma. Whatabouts + disbelief are as traumatic for adoptees for other trauma victims. Belief + solidarity matters.

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@libbyking

3 years

Maybe unpopular opinion: Many good people won’t support the rights and voices of adopted leaders, elders and emerging leaders for fear of hurting the feelings of adoptive parents. It’s 2022, let’s acknowledge that a child’s rights are more important than an adult’s feelings ✌🏻

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@libbyking

8 months

@starcatcher2020 @RavSchluss I did 🙋🏻‍♀️ But I wasn’t remotely impressed by the racist regime. I was impressed by the markets of Nablus and the ice cream in Ramallah, the beauty and dignity of the Palestinian people—their love of spices, their tea and coffee rituals, their famous multi-religious culture 🇵🇸🫶🏻

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@libbyking

6 years

@DanOakesWriter @MichaelSimpson7 Do some reading, buster. He even did a doco about it, so you can watch up. He sure did a lot of talking about it too last year. Keep up!

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@libbyking

8 months

@NathanJRobinson @TIME The line about the Nakba also—“not colonists” and then “when they tried to stop the establishment of the new colony.”

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@libbyking

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@sasa_ghada 😵‍💫 Jack Johnson one said in a song if you don’t stand for something you’ll fall for anything.

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6 years

@irGwyn @itsa_talia @CBCAlerts That’s why Canada’s excited- long history of that.

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8 months

@MacLeodLisa For the lawyers;

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8 months

@AntiNateSilver A disgraceful person without any ethics or morals.

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@libbyking

6 years

@IsaacFitzgerald The way the one who pulls him down (multiple times!) really goes in for the face lick as soon as he gets the chance is peak dog.

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@libbyking

8 months

@HarshaWalia I bought most of my Xmas presents (and more) at Indigo in 2022. Was a paid up member. Haven’t spent a cent there since I learned owner is a Zionist. I returned two items and have two mugs that I can hardly bring myself to use because they have the logo on the bottom.

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@libbyking

4 years

@V_nASSty Likely he’s proud of having a gay uncle. I had a gay godfather (who I call uncle) and I was proud of that and called him my gay godfather 😂

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@libbyking

2 years

Being an ally means listening and believing. If you only believed there was an issue with infants in “supply chains” when you saw it in that document but you didn’t believe it when adopted people told you… …well, that needs to change. Believe adopted people.

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@libbyking

4 years

@Channel4News We all knew it, but good work getting your hands on that database. House falling, prison cells waiting...

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@libbyking

4 years

UNPOPULAR OPINION: Adopters should have ZERO input into adoption policy as they have too many vested interests. Adoptees are the experts.

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@libbyking

2 years

@fortesalatifi (In case it's not clear yet: It was absolutely not "the best." A 10/10 adoptive family can't band aid over that shit.)

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@libbyking

2 years

@emrazz I think the most powerful thing non-adopt people can do right now is: - start believing adopted people - remind your friends to believe adopted people - remind your friends who are adopters and hopeful adopters that they aren’t the experts, adoptees are Change who you believe.

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@libbyking

5 months

@kenklippenstein If they wanted peacekeepers, they should have sent them when Israel started the genocide and stopped that. But, no, just like Zionists they want to be there but they don’t want Palestinians there. It’s a colonial sickness.

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@libbyking

3 years

Can we normalize being polite to unexpected relatives? All of us should be aware our parents/grandparents/uncles/aunts/siblings/cousins may have secrets—be prepared to be a friend+not an arse who traumatizes isolated people at their most vulnerable. Denormalize this; it’s not ok.

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I'm gutted. Blocked by 1/2 brother. Didn't even have the common courtesy to acknowledge my attempt at contact. Well guess what? Same blood flows through our veins and there's not a damn thing you can do to change that.

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2 years

@reason_itself @Rachel23085ds @qgty @ChrisHollis999 @aNorfolkLass @DJ3370178658 @MorganBroadcast @PeterDbrash This is ridiculous. The bank is offering the app. They're the bankers and they decide what services they can offer. You may as well say: Don't use banks. Easy.

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@libbyking

9 months

@KirkLubimov @nccm @Dave_Eby Lying is one of the reasons she had to resign. Simply repeating her lies serves no real purpose.

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@libbyking

4 years

@chimchim237 @justkelly_ok They did the opposite of refusing, they were eager to help.

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@libbyking

2 years

@BFriedmanDC Time to start listening to adopted people and recognising they are the experts (and the ONLY) experts on adoption?

Victoria Holmes 🏳️‍⚧️🔻

@spyturtle96

2 years

Adoptees have been saying non-stop for months if not years they’re getting ready for another baby scoop era and no one listened to us. And now “domestic supply of infants” is in a draft and people still won’t listen to us. #adopteevoices

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@libbyking

7 months

@Kaybella_k The way Biden said that “most people don’t think it’s a genocide.” Buddy, yes, most people think it’s a genocide.

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@libbyking

2 years

@JennaMichelle29 @kelsaywhat @BuzzFeedNews Kinda bizarre to see the confluence of mens rights conspiracy theorists with people like Cat Power and Jennifer Aniston.

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@libbyking

4 years

@WesBEnterprise Bit in the minority there, aren’t you?

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@libbyking

2 years

If your intersectionality doesn't extend to equal rights for adopted people, then you gonna get called out. You've had long enough to figure this out.

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@libbyking

8 months

@SueAnnLevy @Viktor_Renquist @muslimah1010 @sabreenaGS Oh, Palestinians are very focussed on education and leaning. Watch some of the videos where Gaza kids get their high school results — they’re so sweet. I despair at all racist tropes; it says something about your education, I’m afraid.

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@libbyking

2 years

@cmclymer From what I’ve seen in the adoptee community, the lack of understanding from progressive/liberals about adoption trauma and human rights is actually incredibly hurtful. Having “takes” that aren’t based on listening to people with lived experience is hurtful.

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@libbyking

4 years

@jw_mike @sangria1106 @bessbell @bleahg1 Who will die/won’t die is a demeaning and macabre metric. Who will spread/won’t spread will do all us better-and I say this particularly to you, Michael, bc you’re not going to heaven saying shit like this.

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@libbyking

2 years

@BFriedmanDC The fact that SCOTUS is packed up with adoptive parents wasn’t a 🚩 ?Everyone listening to adopted and trafficked people knew this was coming.

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@LinaLeadsWLove

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Let’s not forget that there are 3 adopters on the Supreme Court and ACB is making money from anti abortion organizations. This is all public information and a complete conflict of interest. They are looking out for themselve$ not anybody else. #adopteetwitter #adopteevoices

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@libbyking

8 months

@firasshams1 That’s a New Zealander speaking, for context.

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@libbyking

4 years

Exponential will be the word of the 21st century.

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4 years

Greenland: 1. ice sheet now beyond tipping point and expected to completely disappear due to global warming of more than 2°C which will hit around 2030 - 2040 2. ice loss: 1/4 trillion tons per year 3. melt acceleration is exponential 4. sea level rise feedback has begun

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@TJEBergen @leoerli @jasontoney_ @CJPME Good question.

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@libbyking

4 months

@Variety Genocide denialism is a really bad look.

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@libbyking

2 years

Read a tweet from an adopted person who is making an anon account because they need to say things they can’t say to people who know them…so sad. Think about that when you say “my adopted friend/relative says xyz”

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@libbyking

4 years

@joshtpm Narcissists manipulate people so easily. It’s part of why they’re successful at stuff like intimidation. US media at a low point is the story. No back bone.

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@libbyking

2 years

@VintageLane2012 @IBJIYONGI @BetteMidler We LOVE the cis bit. I’m a cis woman. I’m a cis woman. And I’m proud to call myself a cis woman 🏳️‍⚧️

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@libbyking

5 years

@GoAngelo Lawsuits against cable providers for promoting mis-info? Asking providers to remove Fox from sub deals for elderly sighting danger to life? I’m not a lawyer, but Murdoch is the archer behind all this and he needs to be taken out and throttled.

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2 months

@QudsNen Children are routinely kidnapped as part of genocide.

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@libbyking

4 years

@MeidasTouch This morning, when he saw he lost the ratings war, it for it was all over for him.

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@libbyking

2 years

Irish people adopted abroad as children to get full access to their records

Irish people adopted abroad as children to get full access to their records

Campaign launched to reach those sent overseas during years of hostility towards unmarried mothers

www.theguardian.com

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@libbyking

6 years

@TomiLahren You already being walked, you just haven’t noticed yet ...

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@libbyking

5 years

@FanninJim @enizolak Agrh. Considering the thread you’re responding to..? All these people thinking they’re being smart while just reinforcing the points they’re trying to refute. It’s an epidemic.

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@libbyking

5 years

@TheSundayMirror People voted for the people who did this. World’s seeing a rise in evil. Where is @HamillHimself ? We need the Force.

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@libbyking

2 years

@OreInNicaragua @DavidBrown41 imagine what kind of lifelong hijacking the other person in this felt… I just… legally severed from all kin, false birth certificate… then when you break out with the support of a spouse, you’re the hijacker… man, we treat adopted people so, so, so badly…

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@emrazz Liberals: if you only believed there was an issue with infants in “supply chains” when you saw it in that document but you didn’t believe it when adopted people said so… …well, that needs to change. Believe adopted people.

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@Seamus_Malek The proposed community note is so damning. Even if you hate the politics of the hospital, it’s still a hospital, morally and legally. This is so grim.

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2 years

@K_L_Humphreys @llmunro All the evidence shows that putting people into a genetic bubble and not giving them access to their biokin has significant and ongoing detrimental outcomes on mental health, susceptibility to suicide, addictions, homelessness and yet here you are, literally peddling lies. Why?

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@libbyking

6 years

@SteveScalise @AOC

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8 months

@rabbleca Discriminating against people for being anti-Zionist needs to be called out.

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@gracezilbersh @yashar This doesn’t mean what you think it means. Racists gonna defend apartheid, ethnic cleansing, genocide and call it defence.

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8 months

@rabbleca The UK courts just found that anti-Zionism is a protected opinion like any other form of anti-racism. I wonder what the Supreme Court would say if pressed to make a decision.

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@LTCPeterLerner I’m struggling to understand the relevance of what you’re saying. Would it be a problem if a civilian ambulance treated an IDF soldier? Red cross/crescent can treat the wounded but cannot participate in hostilities. This is key feature of the 1st Geneva Convention.

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@yashar @BronxZoo @BilldeBlasio @AOC @TheWCS @RepJoseSerrano @rubendiazjr @JimBreheny @scottmstringer @CristianSamper @NonhumanRights Zoos ... ❌

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@Mashouf Also today and also after 38 years of imprisonment, the Palestinian writer Walid Dakka died in an Israeli prison. The fascist Minister, Ben-Gvir, said he wished Dukka had been executed by the Israeli military instead of dying of cancer. Remember Palestinian hostages.

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4 years

denormalise adoption as a goal. it’s cruel and unusual to take a child from its mother so you (richer, whiter, more heteronormative) can have a ‘parental experience.’ forget that shit. it’s ok to not be a parent. you’re not saving anyone.

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@ClaraJeffery Dirty dancing