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YES! This article is spot-on...

...I think, in the instant before I remember that I wrote it
In related news: FFS people, stop trying to block Prop C in court. You're making the world a worse place.

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You'd THINK housing the homeless was an issue that liberals and conservatives could agree on, because liberals want to treat the homeless like human beings, and conservatives want to get the homeless off of their nice clean streets.

But somehow it keeps not happening.
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One thing I think would help reduce elite Millennial burnout/disappointment/rage is for people to stop thinking that their job should save the world.

"Save the world" and "make the world a better place" are probably just things employers tell you to get you to work for cheap.
Maybe your job will give you meaning and purpose and a sense of doing good for the world.

Or maybe it'll just make you some money so you can raise some kids, have some pet rabbits, and be active in your local community.

There's more than one way to get meaning in life.
Also, people glorify saving the world when it probably just gives you PTSD.

We like watching Star Wars and Lord of the Rings and whatever, but we wouldn't want to actually fight Darth Vader or slog through Mordor. That would cause major burnout!
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1/Since Trump's demand for his Wall is in the headlines, I thought it would be a good time for a thread about a history book I just read:

"Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control in America", by Daniel Tichenor (2002)

amazon.com/Dividing-Lines…
2/The book starts out with a chapter or two of dense, unnecessary political science jargon, saying that - essentially - U.S. immigration policy tends to move very slowly, because powerful politicians and officials resist the tide of public opinion.
3/But most of the book is an extremely readable, eye-opening history of U.S. immigration policy, from the founding through the 1990s.

It shows how the immigration debates we're now having have been with us, in some form or another, for a very long time.
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Thread about why very high tax rates on very rich people don't raise much revenue (or reduce inequality much, even within the top tier).

Our system has a million loopholes. Closing them is more important than raising top rates.
That's not to say there's a trade-off between raising the top rate and closing loopholes! They are complements, not substitutes.

But if you just raise the top rate without closing loopholes, you'll likely be disappointed.
The fact is, raising effective taxes on the very rich will require a comprehensive sustained push on a large number of policy fronts. There is not going to be one silver bullet.
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Since it is apparently insulting to the memory of a conservative to describe their actual careers after they die, let me say that Bre Payton was a lifelong Democrat who'll be remembered as a tireless proponent of universal health care, immigration reform, and basic human dignity
I just.

This is probably the ultimate expression of privilege and proof that conservatives KNOW they are on the wrong side of history, that they are poison to this country. We dishonor Bre Payton's memory by mentioning her actual work? The stuff she spent her life doing? Okay.
Obviously @KassyDillon knows that Bre Payton wasted her life -- that even worse than wasted her life, she spent it making the world a worse place for purely selfish reasons. @JackPosobiec knows it, too. Otherwise they'd be proud of Payton's record, demand that it be trumpeted.
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So, I went to a spiritual channeling thingy cause I had to.

The format was basically, random person asks question, the "spirit" responds.

I keep going to these religious/spiritual events and theres this itch of a theme at all of them. Adults are lost kids.
The evangelical preacher always gives these answers that could solve your problem, it gets to the emotions of it, if they just went a bit further a process of learning could being.

With the channeling, the answer is always there, it's so close but the answer always ends the
same. God/the universe will handle it

Now you may be thinking that this is the child part. It's not. A lot of this stuff that's said always comes back to this need for power. The power of wealth, health, and direction.

But the way one acquires that power becomes the issue.
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I measure my life in character arcs rather than years, and today is as good a day as any to offer some thanks to friends and foes alike.

We all have much to be grateful for.
My good friend @GoodLookingLosr and I met in our douchebag phase. (We are both married now.) But I’ve never met a more legit or authentic person. He is always there for people when they need him, in a way that’s uncommon in any era and especially today.
There’s always a passing of the torch. Young men more than ever are a mess. And @EdLatimore and @AJA_Cortes are there for people seeking advice and even some tough love.
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1) Let's do a thread on Jeff Sessions.
2) There is a key question to answer: Is our Attorney General "Sleepy Sessions"? Or is that a ruse? Is he actually SUPER WOKE Sessions, doing amazing work behind the scenes, and some crazy shit is about to go down?
3) My analysis will consist of looking at his history. He's been in the public eye for about half a century. There should be more than enough here for us...
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Allez, petit thread inspiré par ça, tellement c'est plein de banalités, encore trop répandues. #Réalisme
Commençons par "Le réalisme est un courant de pensée politique qui affirme que les considérations idéologiques ou morales ne doivent pas...
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