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Sep 28, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read Read on X
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I know we all like to talk about how we justify this or that position to vote-shamers, but here’s where I’ve stood since 2012:

I believe when we contribute our vote to somebody who harms others, we are complicit and we lose some part of our humanity in doing so.
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So I will never, ever vote for a pro-war candidate or party who will do this to other people again (Syria, 2016). It’ll never happen.

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And I’ll never vote for a candidate or party who thinks there’s an acceptable number of people killed by police, jailed at our border, jailed for victimless crimes inside our own country, or who die from lack of affordable health insurance/care.
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It’s just not going to happen. I will abstain from voting altogether rather than be complicit with evil acts.

That’s it. And there’s no shaming or arguing that will move me from this spot. Image

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Nov 15, 2021
Covid-19 Anti-Vaxxer Education Thread:
There is one major misconception at the root of most anti-vax rhetoric I see and hear online and in real life: The idea that viruses work like bacteria. We’re going to tackle this one now.
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If I don’t provide a link, it’s due to Twitter character count, so please just use your browser’s search engine.
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Try to engage anti-vaxxers online and you’ll quickly be inundated with misleading headlines from irresponsible media outlets like these. Anti-vaxxers are notorious at this point for only reading the headlines.
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Jul 25, 2021
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Here’s the speech I wasn’t allowed to finish at yesterday’s @M4M4ALL march in Los Angeles, as promised.
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Jul 24, 2021
The truth as I understand it regarding my not being allowed to finish my speech today at the @M4M4ALL rally in Los Angeles:

I was confirmed as a speaker 6+ weeks ago, thanks to the advocacy of @bigclasstraitor. I was allotted 6-7 min, and I immediately wrote my speech.
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About 3 weeks ago, Savage Joy (we don’t get along *because* I criticize Bernie and the Squad—you can search our last interaction on Twitter as proof) had me removed from the docket. Then I had a lot of people fight for me to get me back on the docket, but organizers resisted.
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One reason they gave was that there was already too many white men speaking and they wanted more diverse speakers. When @bigclasstraitor told me that, I asked him to please, in the next meeting, tell them how sorry I am for the circumstances of my birth.
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Mar 23, 2021
Neither party wants to address the root causes of any problem we face because they rely on these problems to campaign against each other. The best you’ll get from either party are ineffective laws that they’ll try to sell afterward as “helping”.

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But the goal isn’t to help us. The goal is to garner and maintain power for their party and its big-money backers.

To appeal to voters, they pass ineffective laws and then launch PR campaigns, while the problem they’re supposedly addressing remains unchanged.
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Example:
The Affordable Care Act was a handout to health-insurers, providers and Big Pharma, but the Democrats tried to present it as the greatest healthcare reform in history in order to garner voter support.

It’s only gotten worse since.
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Mar 11, 2021
Quick explainer:
I’m a left-wing libertarian.
Right-wing libertarians typically only care about negative liberty, which is about *preventing* (thus, “negative”) the government from interfering in your life. But on the left side of that...
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On the left side of libertarianism (which is actually the root of the libertarian concept), we care about negative liberty but also *positive* liberty, which is not just about preventing interference in your life, but actually empowering people to be *able* to live freely.
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Conceptually, think about the right to travel wherever you want. Negative liberty would just prevent the government from stopping you. Positive liberty builds the interstate highways, airports, railroads, etc, that enable you to actually travel.
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Mar 10, 2021
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The most difficult thing for our campaign has always been fundraising. The services that provide donor contacts usually cost thousands up front so you have to raise money before you get the contacts to raise money.
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About a year and a half ago, a campaign volunteer asked a service that supposedly only supports “left wing” candidates, and does it with no money up front, Grassroots Analytics (@grassrootsmath), working with our campaign. They said no because I’m not a Democrat.
A few weeks ago, I decided to ask them myself. They charge no money up front, but charge 3% of what your campaign raises (with or without using their contacts). They set up a phone meeting and then sent over a contract after that meeting!
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