Giovanna Liviana 🖖🏻 #LearnMMT Profile picture
Philosopher, Linguist, Trekker, Progressive Left-libertarian, member of the Green Party of the US, Gamer, (RT/Followings are not endorsements)
Jul 15, 2019 4 tweets 2 min read
@JoeBiden The ACA was dreamt up by the Heritage Foundation. The public option has failed every time it's been tried, because it doesn't get rid of private, for-profit insurance companies, & people are gullible enough to believe that they'll get better care from a private insurance company, @JoeBiden & thick enough to not get that they're already paying for the coverage of others by participating in a private insurance scheme (that's what the "pool" is into which every person with coverage from the same company pays), & apparently don't understand what "for-profit" means
Jul 14, 2019 28 tweets 5 min read
So many are too young to have even vague memories of Watergate & have no real grasp of what it was or what happened, & are now advocating that Trump be impeached, or that he be censured for this or that or charged with this or that crime. A few things to remember about Watergate: 1) Nixon was never impeached. Articles of impeachment were drawn up, but Nixon resigned before they could be acted upon. Ford subsequently pardoned him.
2) Nixon was correct that you cannot charge a sitting president with a crime; the president must first be impeached.
3) Trump
Jun 23, 2018 5 tweets 6 min read
@JasonGussen @ValeriusRomanus @skin_munchkin @IonaItalia @CathyYoung63 Tough shit. Keep talking about identities and "privilege" when you still know nothing about me. Go find out what Kimberlé Crenshaw meant when she coined the term "Intersectionality," and what it's been distorted into since, and then sit down and listen to people who've been there @JasonGussen @ValeriusRomanus @skin_munchkin @IonaItalia @CathyYoung63 already. You kids keep trying to drag up battles which were won several decades ago so you can pretend to be doing something righteous, and in the process, you're UNDOING progress, which is why we Modern Progressives call you Postmodern "Progressives" by the name others gave you