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When you use the 'any one else would' scenario to make your point, you realize quite vividly how much special treatment is given to a massive white supremacist who claims he is being treated unfairly.

Treat Trump like everyone else, and he would have been in prison five years ago.

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This thread is a few years old but it bears repeating. I’m tired of being treated as if I am invisible. Listen to Jewish voices when we talk about fascism. I am begging you.

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If the 2022 photo was in black and white it would be tough to tell these apart

Book burning in 1933 and again in 2022

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Images that make you enter a fugue state

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The devolution is not symmetrical

“You know the argument: America is divided into warring camps. The center has collapsed. Compromise is impossible. We have become uncivil and angry. While it’s true that the country is more deeply divided along partisan lines than it has been in the past, it is wrong to suggest a symmetrical devolution into irrational hatred. The polarization argument too often treats both sides as equally worthy of blame, characterizing the problem as a sort of free-floating affliction (e.g., “lack of trust”). This blurs the distinction between a Democratic Party that is marginally more progressive in policy positions than it was a decade ago, and a Republican Party that routinely lies, courts violence and seeks to define America as a White Christian nation. The Republican Party’s tolerance of violence is not matched by Democrats. Nor is the Republican Party’s refusal to recognize the sanctity of elections. Democrats did not call the elections they lost in 2020 and 2021 “rigged,” nor are they seeking to replace nonpartisan election officials with partisan lawmakers. Republicans’ determination to change voting laws based on their insistence that Donald Trump won the 2020 election is without historical precedent.”

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It’s not ‘polarization.’ We suffer from Republican radicalization. (via wilwheaton)

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Cycles of a radial engine

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Hiroshi Yoshida.

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My process

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Facts.

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Scary. I reposting this so that I can go back to it in 2024. I will either be happy to see it refuted, or it will be prescient

“A survey of 327 political scientists released this week by Bright Line Watch, a project by scholars at Dartmouth College, the University of Chicago and the University of Rochester, found widespread concern: The experts collectively estimated a 55 percent likelihood that at least some local officials will refuse to certify vote counts in 2024, a 46 percent likelihood that one or more state legislatures will pick electors contrary to the popular vote, and a 39 percent likelihood that Congress will refuse to certify the election.”

— This historian predicted Jan. 6. Now he warns of greater violence. (via wilwheaton)

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ecological catastrophe. all headlines from the same two-week period in june/july 2021.

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Well, when you put it that way… (X)