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Just gonna say it: every white person, let alone if considering a vote for Bloomberg, needs to sit down in a quiet place with this article, and no intervention, and consider who you are.

(Also, ⁦@ElieNYC⁩ is a great human for sending it my way. TU.) theroot.com/i-cant-believe…
Also, in the name of all that is holy, follow @michaelharriot. He is a voice that could save this nation, if all of us are only willing to listen.
PS. NONE OF US ARE FREE UNTIL ALL OF US ARE FREE.

First, let’s try to get (all of us) free.

If you’re not fighting for that, you aren’t fighting for shit.
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Elizabeth C. McLaughlin
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People, I argued with my dad to vote for Carter from the backseat of an Oldsmobile station wagon when I was FIVE.

Telling me to vote blue no matter who when I am trying to explain to you that there are SERIOUS issues of race and gender at stake in this primary IS SILENCING.
I've been voting blue no matter who for as long as I could vote.

Your willingness to create false equivalencies among candidates while we're still in the primary is *part of the problem.*

I'm serious about this. Lives are on the line.
Go talk to your neighbors who voted Trump about voting blue no matter who.

And in the interim, listen to those of us who are deep in the issues for the candidates this primary and *shouting* about what's at stake with some of them.

IT DOES MATTER.
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Elizabeth C. McLaughlin
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I am really sick of the Vote Blue No Matter Who thing.

THE WHO MATTERS.

NOW'S YOUR CHANCE TO PICK HER.

IT'S THE PRIMARY FFS.
Vote Blue No Matter Who is becoming virtue signaling and silencing.

Assume everyone will do it. Stop retweeting it at people who are debating the real issues at stake in this primary.

And start listening to people whose lives will be directly impacted by the candidate.
I'm going to particularly ask white straight cis men to stop doing this.

If your rights aren't at stake in this election, you need to listen more and speak less to the issues that are really at stake in terms of who is the nominee.
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Elizabeth C. McLaughlin
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If you could match me with any celebrity, who would it be?

(A Valentine’s Day Thread for the bored.)
(Seriously, I haven't been able to leave the house all day save for Urgent Care and my home is a quarantine facility. Send help and/or entertainment.)
(I can't even watch anything because my little guy is insisting on bingeing Chip and Potato on Netflix and I am not allowed to leave the room where he is wrapped in a million blankets.)
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As a progressive I want people to evolve. To me it’s clear that Bloomberg needs to sit with his supporters and critics, listen to their concerns, and share whether and how he rejects and regrets his past comments and actions. We ask this of every campaign; he is no exception.
As counsel for #WeSaidEnough I hear from supporters and critics when a candidate’s history comes up. Voters must see these issues taken seriously on the highest stage. A candidate being held accountable may not change my mind about them - but it should change them for the better.
That is a key goal of advocacy: state your case and test someone who wants your vote to be accountable to you when they need you (not wait til you need them). Everyone in modern politics is facing a reckoning on race, gender, equality; many are progressing. That’s a good thing!
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The sound of his own pulse thrumming in his ears is the only thing Bakugou hears as he runs with all his might though the entanglements of the forest. He's already tripped and stumbled more times than he can count, but if he's having a hard time, so are his pursuers.
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1/8 My favorite #quote by #JosephStalin, which explains the scientific, #DialecticalMaterialist explanation of true freedom in material reality, not just as an abstract ideal. #StalinIsBack #StalinLives #JVStalin #Stalin #StalinQuote #StalinQuotes #Truth #MELS #MarxismLeninism
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homestuck was pretty good, overall, but you had to be there
i had really liked problem sleuth, and discovered homestuck maybe three or four days into it, in april 2009, my junior year of high school.

it finished in april 2016, in my sophomore year of art school (community college null zone not included)
it was basically my primary fiction/media thing during that community college null zone. I checked the site every day, posted in the SA forum thread about it, and so on.

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