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Jul 27, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read Read on X
For those of you who grew up poor, what is your trashy gourmet special?

Mine is ramen noodles with tomato sauce, pepper, butter and a quarter pound of sliced government cheese.

I still swear by that shit.
My wife says her (Mexican) trashy gourmet dish was a fried bologna taco which is exactly what it sounds like.
For those asking, “What is government cheese?”

It was basically a 5 pound block of orange rubber the government gave to people on food stamps because they the army refused to eat it.

(Good in noodles, tho.) Image
I really enjoyed this thread. To all the poor kids who responded with their specialties, I just want to say: respect. We survived. It was hard at times but it made us tough. And we all know we can live with less, which is a big thing to know.

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Dec 30, 2023
It’s obvious why so many people on the left are silent about the conclusive NYT piece documenting the mass rape and sexual torture by Hamas:

Because it explodes their simple fantasy that Hamas are noble “resistance” fighters and not the terrorists monsters they truly are.
The entire point of their narrative is that Israel is bad (i.e. Jews = evil) and Palestinians are good (all women/children, no terrorists).

The messy truth is Netanyahu IS bad, and so is Hamas, and so are the people denying rape and so are those advocating carpet bombing.
The only solution is two peaceful states living side by side, though it’s impossible to see how that can happen with the far right in power in Israel and Gaza run by a terrorist death cult.
Read 8 tweets
Dec 13, 2023
The sense that so many people who knew next to nothing about the Middle East before October 7th and recently learned ALOT of antisemitic talking points are merely repeating (and trying to enforce) a script with almost no understanding of the history or facts on the ground.
It’s particularly depressing bc it’s mostly coming from a generation who brought a focus on language, how it’s weaponized, how empathy must be at the forefront of how we speak.

So to see the, “Words are violence” crowd say, “Mass rape is not violence,” is SHOCKING and pathetic.
They are chanting chants written by terrorists who dismember children and vow to murder an entire religion of people.

When pressed, they say they’re not violent phrases and it’s like, “Did you just get here last week?”

And then you remember they DID just get here last week.
Read 9 tweets
Dec 1, 2023
I just don't see how you can look at what's coming out of Gaza and blindly support Israel. Netanyahu is a criminal fascist.

I just don't see how you can deny the atrocity of Hamas' unspeakable acts and pretend there is a chance of any peace as long as Hamas exists.
Everyone just retreats into their tribal affiliation, like its football.

You can believe Israeli families don't deserve to be slaughtered in their homes while criticizing the IDF.

You can believe Palestinians have a right to statehood without denying Hamas's inhuman atrocities.
I was vehemently against the war in Iraq. The US committed war crimes (as it did in Vietnam).

That didn't give cause for US families to be raped, mutilated, tortured and murdered.

The US has a right to exist and US citizens have a right to live in peace. So do Israelis.
Read 4 tweets
Jun 30, 2023
So we’re clear:

The Supreme Court ended affirmative action yesterday by saying you CAN’T discriminate by helping a minority group, then turned around today and said you CAN discriminate by hurting them.
The basic point is it has nothing to do with the law. The only question for them is, “How can we crate and enforce a system which only benefits the ruling class?”
Hey guys, I think we officially found the dumbest statement on the internet.

This guy is saying that if he can’t do shitty bigoted things to minority groups, that’s the same as slavery.
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Jun 7, 2022
America, where the legal age to rent a car (25) is 7 YEARS OLDER than the legal age to buy a semi-automatic rifle which can shoot 45 exploding bullets per minute.
The logic, of course, is that renting a car requires maturity and forethought. A car can be very dangerous, after all and you wouldn't want it in the hands of an irresponsible and erratic 18 year old.
“When a patient is shot by an AR-15, it "looks like a grenade went off in there."

wired.com/?intcid=inline…
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Aug 17, 2021
Republicans on Afghanistan:

2001 (W's invasion): Let's build a nation!

2009 (Obama's troop surge): We must leave!

2015 (Obama 's troop drawdown): We can't leave!

2020 (Trump's agrees to leave): We must leave!

2021 (Biden withdraws troops): We can't leave!
For the record, I wrote a protest song against the war in Afghanistan in 2006 called "The Winning Side."

At the time I was told it was, "Anti-American."
open.spotify.com/track/0ibC6URi…
I'm begging you to understand Republican operatives don't care about the Afghan people. This has always been solely a political wedge for them.

If they cared, they'd demand the US accept Afghan refugees, which they are dead set against.
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