I just saw a meme like that about Team Rocket and I instantly knew what to do
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“Women’s mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.” — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (via philosophybits)
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This is a stupid conversation! and I’m not going to continue it!
literally so fucking correctWhat I’m really proud of is the fact that he made SURE the audience understood why the caller was being an idiot. He made a PERFECT comparison, gave the caller an honest chance to re-evaluate and change his mind. His point landed, everyone knew it, even the caller (note his pause and almost hesitancy after being asked).
But when the caller decided to bulldoze on anyway, because god forbid actually listen to the other person in the conversation, the expert cut him off and refused his time. And good for him.
[VD: A tweet by @ g33kgurli, tweeted at 9:47 PM on Dec 17, 2021. It reads, “Perhaps the best clap back to antivaxxers and antimaskers.” Attached is a video from The Thom Hartmann Program, where Hartmann is talking with a caller. The conversation goes as follows:
Caller: Hey Thom. Uh, I was listening to you for the last hour so, um, I heard survival of the fittest. Um, you know some of us choose not to vaccinate and uh–
Hartmann: You’re nuts, Nicholas.
Caller: –because we work very hard about staying fit, eating healthy, and our natural immune system.
Hartmann: So Nicholas if you’re so healthy, would you have unprotected sex with somebody who has syphilis or gonorrhea?
Caller: You’re missing the point.
Hartmann: No, I’m not missing the point. They’re contagious diseases. Would you have unprotected sex with somebody who has syphilis and gonorrhea and not worry about it because you’re so healthy?
Caller: [pause] No, I wouldn’t do that.
Hartmann: Okay, then why would you expose yourself to covid without having some protection?
Caller: Because the protection is my natural immunity.
Hartmann: No, it’s not. Tell that–
Caller: Yes, yes, my natural immunity–
Hartmann: Tell that to eight hundred thousand dead Americans. Nicholas, this is- this is a stupid conversation and I’m not going to continue it.
/end VD]
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Texas AG on why he supports the Big Lie: "We're done in Texas if anyone can vote" | Boing Boing -
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who’s been peddling “voter fraud” and the Big Lie alongside Donald Trump since day one, is no longer pretending that there are valid reasons for making it harder for Americans to vote.
Speaking to Steve Bannon on The War Room, Paxton (who, as a side note, just came down with Covid) had no qualms about admitting why Republicans are trying their darndest to block the vote: it’s the only way Republicans can win.
“By this November, if we don’t get this changed, it’s very likely we lose,” he told Bannon. “We’re done in Texas if anyone can vote.”
The GQP is so beyond ethics at this point, why not just tell the dirty truth? It’s so much easier, after all. …
(Source: Boing Boing)
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