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20 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Lesson for all: You don’t have to fight the narrative
Let the narrative be.

Lay down your narrative burdens.
There might be something more to life than public relations.
The narrative is kind of a City Hall situation. Can’t fight.

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18 Jun
Branding schmanding. What's terrible about Victoria's Secret is the product: those excruciatingly abrasive and pieces of petroleum-based twine that pass through the buttocks and barely cover the genitals

latimes.com/opinion/story/…
The 7 new ambassadors, the VS collective, are lovely, but 4 of them are models, and one is a TV personality. Two are athletes. Five are under 30; one is a teenager.
The candy-colored polymers go for $20-$80 for a few tablespoons of fabric that's hostile to the skin and the body.

Exposés in Bloomberg and elsewhere show VS uses sweatshops and even slave labor.
Read 8 tweets
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16 Jun
Now we’re talking.

Come for the Gramsci, stay for the Saussure.
Important to note that Dr. James Lindsay (Ph.D., mathematics, 2010) is most known as a hoaxer who considers the language of the humanities gibberish and likes to send it up (as so many have done since the early 90s).
Where Marc Lamont Hill (Ph.D., American Studies, 2005 [I think]) has, along w/his work in journalism, directed a dozen dissertations & has a frankly exhausting CV that includes, among too many books & articles w/illustrious publishers to count, fluent Spanish & solid Arabic.
Read 10 tweets
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11 Jun
Time to notice that QAnon is finished. My column ⁦@latimesopinion⁩ : latimes.com/opinion/story/…
Prophecies are all duds. No more Q. No more messiah Trump. Q Shaman in jail. Powell says there’s no plan. Even Flynn says major ideas are nonsense. Infighting. Many want straight anti-Semitism; some still want to shill for intravenous bleach.

Nothing gold can stay.
The Watkins porn duo created Q — that’s common knowledge now, no?

washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
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10 Jun
After my son’s latest checkup with the pediatrician I’m some combo of floored & amused by how much stock even doctors put in boys realizing their dreams by growing to 6 feet.
The doctor was completely earnest when she said she hopes my son “makes it” and the both knew what she meant!

Is this the equivalent of hoping girls never pass 115 lbs or something?

Is the 6-foot+ ideal for men oppressive?
And all the dating apps and daters who fully despise & penalize men for lying about their height by an inch or two?
Read 6 tweets
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8 Jun
Real-estate listings should include prevalence of gun-ownership in a 50-mile radius and number of annual mass shootings in the region.

Time to change what a “bad neighborhood” is.
…and introduce a meaningful tax on guns and gun violence.

No one should say “this is a great place to raise kids” about neighborhoods where even one person has an assault rifle.
The metric would be simple.

Example: Staten Island (pop 474k) has 4x the gun ownership per capita of the Bronx (pop 1.4m).
Read 4 tweets
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4 Jun
People who cover rightwing media and QAnon channels:

Was 1/6 and the photos of it an effective recruiting tool? Is it viewed as a triumph and prelude to greater things?
.@pastpunditry ?
Because it seems possible that Trump’s loss, the failure of the coup to install Trump, the 100s of arrests, the moral humiliation of the spectacle, the condemnation of the event by all, including Trumpites...that might actually force some Qs to quit the game
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