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45 | southerner | unapologetically black | er doctor | sometimes silly | occasionally profound | new orleans | biloxi | lowbudgetbonvivant | forever skeptical of the racists who filled the public pools🎈
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Tiger Woods arrested, charged with DUI after rollover crash in Florida www.nytimes.com/athletic/715...
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Yikes. To what fucking end are all these entities in the pocket of fucking “industry” for?! What the actual fuck are we doing here in this country? Why are so many of us so fucking stupid as to reduce ourselves to a point where these fucking people are in power… in a representative democracy?!
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We seem to forget that the Civil Rights Movement wasn’t just marches and Kumbaya. It was boycotts and the creation of economic hardship. Now is a great time to remember that spirit.
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This normalization of abhorrent behavior shows up repeatedly throughout American history.
One thing the media's reticence to label Kirk an extremist has made jarringly clear is how scared they are of the people in power now who share his extremist beliefs. In the space of nine months, they have internalized a fear of condemning racism, misogyny, homophobia and antisemiticism.
Energy companies are raising electricity prices for regular consumers to fund expansion projects to meet the demands of data centers controlled by billionaire oligarchs so they can create technologies that put those consumers out of work… but somehow black, brown, and trans people are the problem? 🤡