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It seems like every time you turn around someone is getting shot for doing something dumb like getting lost or using they’re for there or sumpthin. What’s going on in our world that this is the case? Have we lost our collective minds?
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I know! I know! TL;DR. But, there’s a life times worth of shit to plow through plus the Anita Hill testimony is INTERESTING. My god the we shoulda woulda coulda’s with this one are just that bad.
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Cognitive dissonance helps survive mental crises but it also helps us maintain erroneous beliefs like racial enmity that then respond to racist dog whistles and cause otherwise “decent” white people to vote Republican.
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The difficulty that AI has in dealing with darker skinned folks and women is all the proof you need to know that our culture is inherently racist and sexist. We put the same shit into training our AI as we did to training ourselves, and both have produced Ron DeSantis’ Florida.
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Everyone knows that family holiday time is political-religious-sports argument time. Mix in alcohol, the Airing of Grievances, and Feats of Strength and you’ve got a mixture that could easily end Festivus at the emergency room, with gun fire, or the summoning of the police. Here’s how to avoid all that.
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The Lincoln Project is putting out some sick burns on Trump world, but what are they really? Will they really appeal to MAGA-lite voters or are they just grifting liberal pwn the conservative dollars?
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Anger is now at the core of white identity. It is the foundation of grievance politics. You expect the base to be irrationally angry, but not the staffers and office holders, but you’re wrong. And it is that pervasive anger that is driving the fascism of the GOP.
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Could it be that the entire debacle of secret government documents secreted away in a poolside closet at Merde-a-Lardo (Thanks, @Tengrain) be due to Trump’s executive dysfunction as this @NBCNews seems to imply?
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The FBI raided Mar-a-Lago looking for top secret stolen documents Trump was selling to our enemies, and MAGA looses its mind. How does partisanship affect how we remember events?
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So, Garland and the DoJ ARE investigating Trump et al. for the 6 January Insurrection and have been for MONTHS!?! Long before the public hearings or the social media pressure? Hunh. Go figure
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We evolved to be storytellers. We tell ourselves story; we tell each other stories; we spend billions a year on stories. How will the story that the 6 January Select Committee affect our national narrative?
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The very things that we evolved to help us become the most dominant species on the planet are the very things that are killing us now. Find out why we can’t have nice things and maybe never will. How are we worseing our problems?
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What will it take for white America to perceive the sure loss of our democracy and take the risk of voting against Republicans? I don’t know that the evidence the 6 Jan Committee is broadcasting is sufficient to overcome white America’s racial animus.
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How close is the US to facing an armed insurgency? Damn close. We’re already on the cusp of stage 3. We’re living in an anocracy. We have sharply divided identity politics dominated by white grievance. We are closer than most of us think.
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It’s the hip and cool thing to be taking all of the anxiolytics. It’s what all the hip and cool cats are doing now. It’s the new Prozac. But, maybe anxiety can be used for good instead of addiction! What if…
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The number of deaths from #COVID19, the unaccounted for excess deaths during the pandemic, and only the unvaxxed dying of #COVID19 haven’t convinced MAGA Nation to vaxx and mask because of the power of the biases of conservative media coverage and the effects of mass psychosis.
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There’s lots of news to report from our week off for Khmer New Year. Maybe the biggest is that we’re training up for the Phnom Penh Half Marathon! Otherwise, read about vegan dogs, gangs of Nairobi, assholes, and hypervigilance!
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Luck as it turns out exists and is not randomly distributed. Since it is #AutismAwarenessMonth, we ask the question, how lucky are people with autism?
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Gilbert Gottfried would’ve wanted it this way. He wanted us to laugh. Laughter is the best medicine, and what ails us now is prolonged chronic stress. We need all the laughs we can get to help relieve it. It’s all explained right here and links to some of Gottfried’s best work.
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#ScienceFact: Fox News shapes the beliefs, attitudes, behaviors, and interests of its viewers by cherry-picking the stories and information that it presents to them. An utterly convincing study confirms what we already knew.
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