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A USAmerican actually knowing any significant amount about geography is actually a good proxy metric for if they have any form of political education or strongly held political positions

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By Gary Wilson

The illusion of U.S.-Israeli dominance was shattered within hours. Iran rapidly restructured its command, activated its air defenses, and unleashed a series of missile barrages that penetrated Israel’s much-vaunted defenses, striking at the heart of Tel Aviv and even the Ministry of Defense. This swift and effective counterattack made clear that the initial success of the U.S.-armed Israeli military was fleeting and that the war would not be won with shock and awe. Tehran struck back hard and fast.

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you could make a racist colonizer character but if he is drawn in a appealing artystyle or is overall charismatic, then fandomite white ppl will be over his dick because they'd fuck a fence if it was painted white.

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being abused or neglected really makes it clear how many things are skills that nobody really treats as. skills. exercising autonomy is a skill. listening to your body is a skill. resting is a skill. being liked and being loved are skills. nobody tells you how to do this shit because nobody even told me I was supposed to have learnt these things when I was a kid. I kind of just have to manually figure out what makes me freak out and work from there. unfair as shit

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I think every lesbian who says she wouldn't date a bi woman is functionally on the same wavelength as men who say they would only marry a virgin

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protests in LA against unlawful deportations being called an insurrection after one single day of unrest. martial law is next. the playbook is not hard to read.

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PolSci majors, what does it mean when judges want their own security service because the official security services are more loyal to a felon rapist than they are to the rule of law?

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Okay so just to sum up recent events on the US Right:

• Trump starts a contract with Peter Thiel's Palantir company to create a database of ALL INFORMATION on EVERY LIVING AMERICAN

• Its revealed Stephen Miller and Elon Musk have had a very massive fight, supposedly because Elon Musk is sleeping with Miller's wife

• Trump ousts Elon from the administration, after over five months of being besties. Leaves with Stephen Miller's wife, who he just hired at one of his companies (!?)

• Elon starts saying the Big Beautiful Bill sucks

• A GOP Representative reveals that most of them didnt actually get to read the Big Beautiful Bill, GOP leadership basically made them rubber stamp it and they are pissed to find out it makes them all look horrible. A lot of them are now discussing a shakeup in GOP leadership.

• Trump says Elon has "Trump Derangement Syndrome" (🤮)

• Elon escalates massively, stating that Trump is in the Epstein files and THATS why they havent released them yet

• This comes right as Alex Jones loses a massive chunk of his audience because he's endorsing Trump's Palantir contract, and his fans are basically all very concerned about their privacy. They want a new conspiracy to follow and they just got one

• Trump starts threatening Elon's government contracts

• Ian Miles Cheong calls for Trump to be impeached immediately, and for JD Vance to become President. Elon Musk quote retweets this with "Yes"

• JD Vance was mentored by Peter Thiel

• Steve Bannon takes to Fox calling for the immediate deportation of Musk, and making SpaceX a public company

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I'm still thinking about sinners and like it made me remember that me and my family have west Caribbean ancestry/we are the descendents of the slaves there. while thinking too hard about that stuff can make me sad, it also fills me with joy seeing how much black culture from all over still is prevalent and even managed to adapt itself into modern times while staying relevant and popular.

I've also seen a picture of my super great relative who was alive during the last few years of southern slavery in America. she looked extremely bitter and it does scare me a bit, but I hope she is resting well knowing her family is still here, black n proud.

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Friendly Reminder theres only one way to deal with fascists. They do not respond to civility, they do not change thier minds, they delight in the suffering of others. But they are nothing but weak men cosplaying strength. When confronted with real aggression and real action, they shrink away, scared to show themselves in public. I get that its terrifying right now, and being pride month I will bet more than anything that the Trump Administration will try some petty morale breaking bullshit as a show of strength. You need to be strong. And here's the hardest truth I can drop this pride. They will try to take everything from you. You cannot hide, you will never be quite enough for them, never be hidden enough. Even now the Company Palantir is posed to collect all your information into a master list. You will be hunted. I wish I could tell us that we get to live a happy peaceful life, that your trans, you were brave and overcame that hurdle, and found your slice of happiness. But we don't get that. We have to be ready to bleed, because they will make us bleed. Violence isn't the only answer. It is the answer only when all avenues of peace have been exhausted. Right now you need to start forming local communities and support networks, find an lgbt alliance, if there isn't one, form one. Help those in poverty, work to make community gardens, teams for home repairs. Recruit, build up.

Happy Pride. The resistance starts with you.

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A couple of years ago we were all terribly concerned about the fact that a lot of American high schools are assigning such crushing homework loads that some kids literally don't have enough time to eat or sleep (and all this in spite of the fact that there's no good evidence that assigning homework actually improves academic outcomes at the pre-university level), but now we're hearing stories about those same schools struggling to stop kids from using ChatGPT to write their essays and suddenly It's The Children Who Are Wrong. Like, do you think maybe there's a certain level of cause and effect in play here?

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