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Dec 7 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The only child shit is actually pretty gravy when you're young. When you get older? Man, it'd be nice to have some help.
Heh. It's funny (not *actually* funny) that you say that but yeah. That's where my revelation about this started.
Sort of related: This *obviously* isn't true for everyone — please don't run up here trying to #wellactually me — but it's been stuck in my head ever since I read this Chris Rock interview two years ago. nytimes.com/2020/09/16/art… Image
I figured out pretty early on that I needed friends and i've got lots of them and very good ones, people closer to me than a lot of my family members. But it does get you to thinking.
as much as i love the support, one thing: i'm from a huge family — 20 uncles and aunts total — and am perfectly aware of how fucked up the dynamics can be there & how little you can count on those relationships surviving a crisis. you don't need to share that with me anymore ok?

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Dec 7
I was thinking this too - been thinking it since last year, even - but more along the lines of: If America was the country it purports itself to be (warm, devout, compassionate, smart, a man who climbed out of poverty) he would be a clear contender even if he didn’t want to be.
It’s really wild that the Atlanta Dream got us here.
As bad of a boss as Elon Musk appears to be, the Atlanta Dream hated Kelly Loeffler so much they pressured her to sell the franchise *and* crushed her political ambitions. Imagine being able to do that to an employer you hated.
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Dec 5
He can take his son, last year’s No. 1 overall recruit and all of the Barstool money and following to Boulder but … not this.
I also had forgotten Deion had to scramble to get that degree that allowed him to become a college coach, because his academic record prior to that was notable only in that it led to a change in Florida state law lol latimes.com/archives/la-xp…
Just say, “thank you, thank you so much for giving me an opportunity no PWI would have ever given me. I couldn’t have done this without Talladega, Jackson State and the thousands of people who believed in me when no one else did, the fundamental difference in a place like this.”
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Dec 5
lol there's absolutely nothing about this particular set of political beliefs that would stump any black person who knows better. please, try to meet even one of us.
So you're telling me there's a subset of white people who don't think black people should have equal rights but are for spending money on massive public programs that disproportionately exclude black people??? Wow. Fascinating!
ooooooh. interesting. i wonder who was voting and who wasn't in the "mid-20th century"?
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Dec 4
They BET not 🐸
DO YOU BELIEVE???
This sort of slander is why Michigan will get all of the hands and feet next month.
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Dec 3
Literally took less than half of one (1) football season to see how cool and fun USC could be again. There's just not another program like this, man.
In 2007, I interviewed John David Booty about the perks of playing at USC and he told me that — for some reason — Ashton Kutcher invited him to play catch over at Jon Voight's house. You just can't do that in, like, Columbia.
Just occurred to me: Among many other things, Kanye doesn't seem like a dude who follows sports. Maybe he got CP3 confused with, uh, the guy who used to play RB for USC.
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Nov 3
I assume this isn’t about those hundreds of thousands of children who were orphaned - to say nothing of the thousands who died themselves - but if you’re really just excited for Republicans to steamroll all precautions, please just say it with your chest. scientificamerican.com/article/the-nu…
Motherfuckers are so beholden to “test scores” at the expense of keeping people safe. Like, why we should care about test scores? People have their whole lives to learn, and not just to enter some already nonsense race to college that’s already weighted toward the privileged.
“It’s tragic that your primary caretaker suffocated to death but on the bright side you’re still scoring in the second quartile on the state’s standardized math section, so all should be well.”
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