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Raising two rebels to build a new world on the ashes of the old. Sporadic writer. Member of the Tribe. High school dropout. J-school PhD student. Eat the rich.

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    Mar 16

    Liberals vs. Leftists... Liberals want a more diverse group of highly paid CEOs. Leftists want to get rid of highly paid CEOs.

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  2. 19 hours ago

    Denny’s knows their target audience.

    zoom in on the syrup
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    19 hours ago

    hey young writer, pick your poison:

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    Sep 8

    feels like this is the most common ideology among elites for awhile now, yet it seems to have been significantly less studied than other views.

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    Sep 8

    can anyone recommend any good books on the history of centrism as an ideology?

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  6. Sep 8

    but Democrats are mad Russia bought some Facebook ads.

    For those here and the region who will be quick to criticize the administration for this, i ask what is your policy other than watching Venezuela become a failed state that is starving and crushing its people and creating hundreds of thousands of refugees?
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  7. Sep 8

    someone called me their boss the other day so that was unsettling. I’m humbled to be in a leadership role as a TA this semester, but I’m definitely nobody’s boss.

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  8. Sep 8

    fuck if only he was ever in a position of power to have fought for such a thing.

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    Obama endorses Medicare for all.
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  9. Sep 8

    feels like this is the most common ideology among elites for awhile now, yet it seems to have been significantly less studied than other views.

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  10. Sep 8

    can anyone recommend any good books on the history of centrism as an ideology?

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  11. Sep 8

    did Millennials kill monogamy yet or no? asking for a friend.

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  12. Sep 8

    liberals swoon

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  13. Sep 8

    it’s kind of an interesting moment in time when capitalists are able to just openly admit their business model literally depends on slavery.

    Nestle says slavery reporting requirements could cost customers
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  14. Sep 8

    I might actually just use this in my diss. will credit you for putting it so clearly.

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  15. Sep 8

    Dissertation RQ1:

    Wtf is going on, just in general
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  16. Sep 8

    always nice when the right side of history is also the right side of your bottom line amirite?

    Nike’s online sales jumped 31% after the company unveiled its Kaepernick campaign
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  17. Sep 8

    anyway, if anyone is curious about all this you can read my thesis even tho I already hate parts of it. I should turn it into a book but I've been too busy/lazy to try to market it to publishers.

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  18. Sep 8

    anyone who wants to understand how we lost our shared set of facts (a whole other problem, btw) needs to understand this story. faux intellectuals, money/poltically-motivated knowledge production, & professional journalism's reliance on elites have been a near-fatal combo.

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  19. Sep 8

    in the 1970s conservative business leaders (e.g. Pete Coors) got together w/conservative intellectuals to form a network of partisan think tanks. journalists, grappling (badly) w/the tenet of objectivity, have since taken to presenting this expertise alongside actual expertise.

    We need more shared facts. We need more reporters who want to do straight reporting. We need to bring back the old, brighter line between news and opinion/commentary.
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  20. Sep 8

    to clarify, this isn't suggesting that "Just Do It" is ableist - it's a response to Nike's new tagline in their Kaep marketing campaign that asks "Are your dreams crazy enough?"

    hey , I have this wild dream where companies don't use ableist language in their marketing campaigns.
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  21. Sep 8

    as anyone who follows me knows, I'm not a fan of Democrats, but this is a significantly lopsided problem on the GOP side.

    I fear we’re headed toward a place where hefty majorities of both sides of the electorate are going to regularly embrace unsupported and blatantly false assertions. Technological fragmentation of media enabled it, and siloed fan-servicing media practices are accelerating it...
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