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27 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The worst period of feminism was when they kept telling me that I had to go into waste management or aviation
Also they said I had to do yardwork, that girls had been kept down for too long
I think this might have been a my parents thing
Seneca Falls somehow always meant it was time to rake leaves

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25 May
A lesson from the Silk Road.

The only time people try to understand other minds and tribes is when they’re trying to sell them something.
Christianity, spices, Nike.

Sounds bad? At least it’s a powerful and persistent incentive to learn other languages (be “anti-racist”).
We don’t progress by moral commitments.

We progress because markets are marginally better than war.
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22 May
.@nhannahjones is the Galileo of the field of American history, no exaggeration

Has the rightwing never met an interesting idea? Their incuriosity and intellectual terror sometimes rival their racism
Anyone I have ever known in academia — humanities and sciences — would give anything to stress-test their field’s dominant paradigms as rigorously & imaginatively as Jones has.
It is a monumental achievement. The cries of dissent from towering American historians like Sean Wilentz are *proof* of what an visionary accomplishment the 1619 Project is. It has awoken the field “from its dogmatic slumbers” (as Hume said of Kant).
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22 May
A belated word about Woke Coke h/t Ted Cruz

Before the Lost Cause romance came along to turn ignominy into glory for the South, the defeated Confederacy treated trauma with...Coca-Cola.

The cocaine & cola-but syrup was marketed to address despair.
*kola-nut
It was designed by a druggist & Confederate vet who sustained a nasty saber wound in the war. Which led to an even nastier morphine habit.

Cocaine and sugar as everyone knows is a nice answer for the nodding opiate addict.
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21 May
Ohiiii DNC
You up?
You’re ignoring me
I’m Adam, a real person
We are begging you
We have never been so enraged
Heartbreaker bitch
Get your shit together
We must pass HR-1
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16 May
For anyone thinking of tweeting about, say, Israel, I made this handy flowchart a few years ago to help you decide medium.com/message/death-…
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15 May
Zero people need my opinion on mask use but what the hay:

My sole purpose in life these days is to proselytize for the vax.

So I have to think like Ned Flanders or a Jehovah’s Witness or Mormon or Scientologist on commission for how many appointments I book.
But like any good salesman or evangelist my techniques change depending on who I am trying to bend to my will.
Hippie antivaxers are a whole different kettle of fish from Trump antivaxers. People who think it’s expensive to get the (free) vax—they’re their own thing.
Sometimes not wearing a mask & telling people it’s bc I got the vax and feel so free finally, right? — that’s the best way. Other times, wearing one & bonding hating anti-mask assholes & how you definitely got the vax, right? No? Oh well lemme sign you up. Sometimes that does it
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