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neurodiversity is Good Actually. just want to say that
I would be extremely cautious about this, given how many people with long covid show symptoms of ME, and how GET went.
When we could just let them in and give them a ferry ticket.
The first 40 years of his life is somewhat more than all of it.
No one is saying don't go. Your name doesn't need to be on a list for that.
Why does their mailing list need info on if you attended a particular protest? And why not just be honest and say "sign up to our mailing list"?
That's not what these people are arguing, though.
They could have a general mailing list people can sign up to. They don't need a list of who's at a specific protest.
I'm sure no one associated with the civil rights campaigns in the 60s ended up shot, right?
But signing up for a protest doesn't do anything helpful for us, so why take extra risks for nothing?
How did so many people end up in Gaza? What are residents of Gaza City being told to do right now?
Not being a member of the ICC is the US specifically avoiding international law.
This interview asked about their concerns, and they turned out to be "Muslims exist near us." Leftist parties should deal with the genuine problems in the country, but pandering to these sorts of people leads nowhere.
I honestly think it's more the reverse - a hierarchical society in which some people are considered inherently better than others makes it easier to impose policies that hurt those at the bottom, and reduces solidarity between the poor and the comfortably off.
Alarming and completely unsurprising
The BBC is now fully colluding with fascists. Talking about Charlie Kirk, JD Vance and Tommy Robinson as free speech activists, even played a clip of Vance on Kirk's podcast without mentioning the bit where he vowed to use government force against the left.
all of this makes me want to scream, but the part I'm going to be up all night rage-spiraling about is accusing her of "potentially endangering the physical safety of our staff" just flippin' those narratives right around so the Black woman, a TARGET of violent hate speech, becomes the aggressor
I love the one on the left!
What the Debate Me bros have done is found a way to filibuster the self-evident humanity of a person or group by making it an endless topic of debate. As Toni said: "None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing." It's not my job to prove my equality to those who think me inferior
The NCGOP will lie right to your face and say they believe in equal rights while actively undermining basic civil rights. Debating them is like playing make-believe. #ncpol
Oh god, you definitely don't want to claim asylum in the UK! We're fucking awful to refugees! Not that I expect it's hugely better elsewhere, but different parties competing in how cruel they can be has been a feature of our recent politics.
There are things being tried, including low dose natroxone, but nothing that's been established as helping with the fatigue. There are things that help with the other effects - I'm on pregabalin and duloxetine to help with the migraines and muscle aches. I'm sorry you're dealing with it, it sucks.
Bright red blood might mean it's from higher up, but might also mean it's from a bigger or more active bleed. There's a lot of things that can cause it, and some of them are very serious. I know it'll be a bastard for the PEM, but it really needs checking out. Are you in the UK, by any chance?
It does not appear to be true.
But I think we can all agree he should have been.
I don't know if this is a language issue or something, but no, that is not what secular means in English.
There's a difference between playing games and being deep into gamer culture.
Nope, we’re sure not!
Why are you calling him gay?
the problem, as it usually is, is that there are people who it’s acceptable to kill and people who it’s not, and people are very upset that the agreement over who belongs in the second category are breaking down
Charlie Kirk’s shooter was a 22 year old white cis man & 4chan groyper. Charlie Kirk’s last words were “gang violence”. he was claiming Black people were inherently violent right before his life was ended by another white man. Here is a description of Kirk’s terrorism by one of his many victims:
Not loving the BBC's reporting on Tyler Robinson - saying the bullets were engraved with "antifascist slogans" while failing to mention that he was a right-wing edgelord.
The ones that never existed?
I was a teenager at the time, and desperately hoping that the US wouldn't do something stupid while knowing that they definitely would.
God its so disingenuous to pretend that all CK did was “have horrible opinions”. The man co-founded an organization that’s sole function was to fight tooth and nail to indoctrinate children at school into violent white nationalism. He wasn’t even just a pundit. He was ceo of the baby Nazi factory.
Since Charlie Kirk was fatally shot, people on the left have been censored, punished, and targeted with more violence for telling the truth about Kirk's legacy. The cycle continues: mainstream whitewashing of violence begets more violence and the victims are blamed. spitfirenews.com/p/the-nation...
Sincerely the worst thing about political discourse for the past 10 years is this insistence that we should hear everyone out and every stance is worth a debate. Espousing racist talking points and misleading stats doesn't make someone civil or even worth engaging.
I was a decidedly mediocre shot as a teenager, and hitting a stationary human at 200m is not hard.
Kier Starmer's statement that includes the words "We must all be free to debate openly and freely without fear - there can be no justification for political violence" feels *slightly* hypocritical when he criminalises peaceful protest, endorses transphobia, and fully backs UK arms sales to Israel.
The Onion is a satirical paper. This guy isn't real.
Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech
They don't seem to have helped much with that in the US.
It's a phrase for Black people, especially civil rights activists. Kirk was the opposite of that.
"Rest in power" is absolutely not appropriate for Kirk.
Here's something that needs to be stressed: no amount of saying "political violence is never acceptable" is going to make Republicans NOT do more political violence and become more extreme. They were doing that anyway and it's literally not possible for them to do that faster than they already are.
Nope, there are plenty of atheist Jews, including rabbis, and what you do is considered more important than what you believe.
That comes under the trans umbrella, if you want it to.
There shouldn't be a class of people that have vastly more power than others. If we can make a profit while destroying them, even better.
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It's so good!
I can’t highlight the importance of this research enough. It clearly shows that children must not be in school with covid infections. Schools must treat this like TB and remember there is no current cure for long covid.
Harlech Castle, maybe?
May I remind everyone that there is currently NO cure for rabies. May I also remind everyone there is absolutely NO scientific proof connecting ANY vaccine that we produce today with autism. This is true regarding vaccination in both humans AND in dogs. Vaccinate your pets please.
GPT5 doesn't reason, and it will generate real-sounding but non-existent citations.
This account is spreading inaccurate information - the video is from months ago.
It was originally a genre of South American post-colonial literature.
He would, except his family said "fuck this" and left when he wouldn't stop obsessing over trans people.
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Twelve Angry Men is excellent.
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These people are scum. Not rationally concerned, not economically disadvantaged, not seeking for a political home, not a silent majority. Scum.
Scuse me but I’m personally benefitting from decades of failed housing policy, concentrated & continuous wealth inequality and seeing housing as a speculative asset rather than a basic need, and am contemptuous of the idea of anything changing or housing being provided through any other means
Most things by Ursula Vernon, but Nine Goblins immediately springs to mind.
Oh, they've already argued for that.
What?
Ha, yes! First good choice he's made.
He is doing his very best not to be outdone on fuckwittedness.
Very few of them can rival him on measures such as "number of war crimes committed there."
I have never denied any of that. But you don't get there without those earlier fights, and some of those involved chucking bricks at cops.
Or gay, or Black, or...
Over.
We can do that after taking care of a couple of people.
This undersells what insurance exchange policyholders will feel if Congress doesn't act. The 18 percent increase is on the raw cost of insurance. But many will also lose enhanced subsidies that expire at the end of December. Those people will feel an average increase of *more than 75%.*
Women, and other people who can get pregnant, do not have equal legal rights. And yes, your assumption about my age led you to make an ignorant and insulting comment.
It's not just LGBTQ people. I don't have the full right to an abortion, here in the UK or especially in the US. I don't have the right to get married, because I lose my disability benefits if I do. My right to access public buildings is largely unenforced. The US never even passed the ERA!
Majority votes on who's guilty have definitely never gone wrong before.
And that's a funny way to spell "sorry for making assumptions about you."
We can make it so those reactionaries have less power, so we are more able to just not care about their views.
I'd say it's more like saying Roberts is practicing law - and you were happy enough for him to be representative of all lawyers.
You work all those hours and the papers don't even have an effect?
I'm queer, nonbinary, AFAB and disabled. I'd love to know when you think my legal equality was guaranteed.
I know how fucking important it is! See above re the right to be gay at all as a thing to campaign for! It's just not enough, alone, to declare that we've achieved equality now. You are also making some bold assumptions about my age and experiences; eg, I don't have full rights to bodily autonomy.
Legal equality isn't all that matters, and rights to things like freedom from discrimination aren't consistently enforced. You seem to have a very limited view of the various campaigns for gay rights.
No, because we don't yet have gay equality. Being gay was decriminalized in the wake of Stonewall and actions like it, though.
The main appeal of the 80s that I can see would be to assassinate Thatcher and maybe change the later course of politics.
It's that that's her first name - media will generally use the surname as well, but shouldn't use just "Mary" or turn "Robinette" into part of the surname .
Could work, yeah
As someone living in the Midlands, I object.
Palestinian boys shot in testicles as “target practice” Dr. Nick Maynard of Oxford University Hospital says Palestinian boys in Gaza suffered gunshot wounds he believes came from deliberate targeting by Israeli soldiers. 1/3
I'm in a FB foraging group, and there are far too many people who feel the need to give a confident opinion when that confidence is incredibly unwarranted.
It is extremely good! But it's also okay to read something lighter if that's what your brain needs right now.
He means focus on combating crimes by poor people.
That's a different arrest. *This* arrest is for inciting violence.
There are people who will say yes for any of those groups, sadly.
It is also extremely full of people explaining the reference. I hadn't come across it before, and didn't find any lack of info.
It doesn't feel like we really needed new fake slurs, y'know?
But they are wrong, and we are correct. That is actually quite important.
It means he's not in this thread! No one is necessarily talking to him! That means you an worry less about sparing his feelings when criticising racist phrasing.
That is an anonymised screenshot.