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Almost nothing you do online changes anything. Out of the tweets, into the streets.

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Joined March 2011
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Dr. Tim Bailey retweeted
Hey Dems we want a vibe that’s Mamdani + vindictive. We want effective leadership that gets shit done and improves people’s lives. And we want to see the fucking traitors face consequences. Do both.
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Dr. Tim Bailey retweeted
No. Speaker @RoKhanna
Speaker Hakeem Jeffries.
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Dr. Tim Bailey retweeted
SCHUMER AND JEFFRIES MUST GO! THEY HAVE ALLOWED THE TRUMP TREASON TRAIN TO RUN AMERICA OFF ITS TRACKS FOR 10 YEARS! NO MORE!
Chuck Schumer absolutely ratfucked Angie Nixon and should never be forgiven for this.
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Dr. Tim Bailey retweeted
Don’t get me wrong I’m extremely happy tonight. But I’m gonna be really pissed off if Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries lead the House and Senate. Their ancient tactics aren’t ready to meet today’s moment.
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Dr. Tim Bailey retweeted
Senate Dems need new leadership. PERIOD.
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Osoff for Democratic Leader or Minority Leader. Enough with @SenSchumer !!!
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Dr. Tim Bailey retweeted
So, absolutely nothing on the guy that tried to do a hit at the WH Correspondence Dinner. No trial, no information, not a fucking word. staged
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Dr. Tim Bailey retweeted
Historian of fascism here. This is an escalation of an attempt to normalize extreme violence, ritualize violence, militarize the country, and make violence entertaining so when they ask you to commit violence in their name, you will be ready.
Trump & Hegseth aren't just proposing to livestream an execution for people who want to watch. They're proposing to broadcast a man being shot to death, even if deserved by our system, and even if you agree with this version of the death penalty, knowing that the footage will be clipped, shared, and pushed into social media feeds. Including those of our children. The gruesome image will be everywhere. Parents will have virtually no control over whether their kids see it. Once those images are released, there is no taking them back. Hope all the parents in the Trump Admin are cool with that.
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Dr. Tim Bailey retweeted
the dynamic of lib/left political discourse seems rly simple to encapsulate: - the leftist takes a "morally virtuous" but non-pragmatic position - liberal says it's a dumb bc it won't happen and there's a better approach to reduce harm - leftist takes this dispute as the liberal being morally opposed to the initial position - conversation is reframed as the liberal person is anti-'good thing' like that's literally the entire discourse now, and once you see it you can't unsee it
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Dr. Tim Bailey retweeted
Animal consciousness already brings up many of the AI consciousness moral dilemmas. Suppose it were scientifically discovered that ants are conscious. It still wouldn't work, economically or socially, to treat people who kill ants in their house like mass murderers.
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Hey! If you see this, I hope you’re having a great day. This site isn’t good for debates, so try not to get pulled into one. It won’t change anything for the better. It’s also not full of nourishing information, so sample lightly. Ask what you want and scroll safely!
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Dr. Tim Bailey retweeted
it’s kinda sad that we’ll never again have a breakout new language like rust or go, a new version control system, a new shell, become popular. no improvement is enough to outweigh the gains from the familiarity that agents have with the incumbent tools
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Dr. Tim Bailey retweeted
Replying to @JKerr1999
Lincoln campaigned on allowing slavering to continue and then ended slaver. Allow politicians to who broadly support your values to do whatever is necessary to get elected and you’ll get much more of the results you want than forcing them to lose with morally right positions.
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Dr. Tim Bailey retweeted
The lack of urgency on the left outside anti ice work has me nearly catatonic, we need to be pushing on so many fronts and it just isn't happening.
We are SEVERELY fucking underreacting to what’s happening in our government right now.
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Dr. Tim Bailey retweeted
We quite literally raise millions of dollars for cancer research every year. Is your podcast doing that or?
Video game speedrunning might be the largest misallocation of human capital of all time You have 150+ IQ gigaautists devoting their lives to beating Mario Kart levels 0.00001 seconds faster instead of curing cancer or something
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Look, I'm a public school kid, I'm with you. I wouldn't have believed it was possible if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes - some areas of the country are so poor that their schools are like refugee camps. Sometimes unsafe, always subpar. But people need to afford a home...
Priced out of basic schooling? You mean public education that's free because we pay taxes?
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...and the public school you can go to is based on where you live, so yes, they're effectively priced out of what I would consider "basic" schooling. Like, having textbooks and not worrying other kids will knife or shoot your children.
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