We need to talk about @senatemajldr Mitch McConnell and how he is MURDERING THIS NATION. And we need to talk about it RIGHT NOW. Yesterday he killed the only chance for a nation hanging on by a thread to receive ANY economic relief. HE MUST BE REMOVED FROM HIS POSITION (Thread)
—You can register to vote online
—You can register to vote on election day
—You are automatically registered to vote when eligible
—Hand-marked paper ballots replace voting machines that can be hacked
—Candidates for POTUS must release tax returns
—This would provide comprehensive protections for LGBTQ Americans in employment, education, federal funding, housing, public accommodations and more; & make it illegal to discriminate against them, penalize, or fire them for their sexual orientation.
—DREAMers (young immigrants who came to the U.S. as children) would be protected from deportation, detainment, or harassment by ICE or CBP
—A path to citizenship would be established for more than 2 million immigrants
—Employers can no longer ask about prospective employees’ salaries
—Companies cannot retaliate against employees who compare wages or seek other employment
—Employers must show that pay disparities are based on factors like merit/performance
—Background check requirements on private sales of firearms would be expanded to include those sold at gun shows, on the internet, or through classified ads (which is how multiple mass shooters obtained their murder weapons)
—This would have blocked our exit from the Paris climate agreement, which thankfully President-elect @JoeBiden has already announced we will be rejoining on Day 1 of his administration, which cannot come soon enough.
—Nearly all Rx drug prices would be lowered
—The Affordable Care Act would be strengthened
—Healthcare for millions of Americans with preexisting conditions would be permanently protected
—Everything in the original bill +
—Funding and grants for domestic abuse programs
—Expand the prohibition of firearm purchases for spouses or formerly married partners convicted of abuse to include dating partners
—Reverse the 2017 vote to repeal net neutrality, making it once again unlawful for internet service providers like AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile to block or throttle consumer access to the internet and empower the FCC to enforce these rules
—Increase the federal minimum wage for regular employees over a 7-year period, for tipped employees, and for newly hired employees who are under 20 years old
—Eliminate the separate minimum wage requirements for tipped & newly hired employees
—Requires drug companies to reduce prices for medications, vaccines, and other healthcare products
—Requires companies to give notice and justification for raising the price of a drug more than 10% at a time or more than 25 over 3 years
—Increasing access to healthcare, health insurance, and lower-cost drugs
—Raising the minimum wage & closing the gender pay gap
—Improving internet access, cost, and speed for all Americans
—Addressing foreign and domestic terrorism, including designating white supremacist groups as terrorists
—Improving benefits for veterans, including tax relief and child care
—Building a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers
—Addressing the issue of gun violence with common-sense measures that would actually help to prevent mass shootings
—Reducing government corruption, increasing oversight, securing elections & voting rights, ending gerrymandering & ending the influence of money in politics
#McConnellKillsSickLeave
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NG - High Alert https://t.co/lfeSiUCCRB
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— R\u0113d.P\u012bll.Ph\u0101rm\u0101c\u012bst (@Red_Pill_Pharma) January 18, 2021
30 secs in - what do I hear?
\u2018Peaceful transition to military power\u2019
\U0001f1fa\U0001f1f8 MILITARY IS THE ONLY WAY \U0001f1fa\U0001f1f8 pic.twitter.com/9NPMT7N7Qy
We Will Never Forget
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Stage is set
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The stage is set. Staged.
— JeLove (@LovesTheLight) November 7, 2020
Where? (the) Delaware.
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Purple
First graphic in 98https://t.co/PKHlxp0rzS pic.twitter.com/XCx6pVQTHx
Following the 44 trail of breadrumbs
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Boom, Boom, Boom pic.twitter.com/ZcZXAgL0Qf
— JeLove (@LovesTheLight) August 13, 2020
This will go pretty in depth FYI.
I couldn't possibly guess why Six Days in Fallujah is being revived at a time when US army recruitment is at an all time low.
— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) February 11, 2021
This reboot is from the same people that worked with the FBI and CIA on training systems and is basing its game on excusing US war crimes. pic.twitter.com/5H8vVqKh9s
The core reason why I'm doing this thread is because:
1. It's clear the developers are marketing the game a certain way.
2. This is based on something that actually happened, a war crime no less. I don't have issues with shooter games in general ofc.
Firstly, It's important to acknowledge that the Iraq war was an illegal war, based on lies, a desire for regime change and control of resources in the region.
These were lies that people believed and still believe to this day.
It's also important to mention that the action taken by these aggressors is the reason there was a battle in Fallujah in the first place. People became resistance fighters because they were left with nothing but death and destruction all around them after the illegal invasion.
This is where one of the first red flags comes up.
The game is very much from an American point of view, as shown in the description.
When it mentions Iraqi civilians, it doesn't talk about them as victims, but mentions them as being pro US, fighting alongside them.
I don’t think the sharp opposition between “hard-edge populism” & “conservative orthodoxy” holds. Many of the Trump administration’s achievements were boilerplate conservatism. Its own website trumpets things like “massive deregulation,” tax cuts, etc. /2
https://t.co/N97v85Bb79
The claim that Buckley and “key GOP politicians banded together to marginalize anti-Communist extremism and conspiracy-mongering” of the JBS has been widely repeated lately but the history is more complicated. /3
This tweet by @ThePlumLineGS citing a paper by @sam_rosenfeld and @daschloz on the "porous" boundary between conservatives, the GOP and the far-right is relevant in this context.
There's a great paper called "The Long New Right" that tells the story of the GOP/conservative movement's failure to police extremists for the last 50 years.
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 28, 2021
It's highly relevant to the insurrection and Marjorie Greene's lunacy.
I summed it up here:https://t.co/DTlzGomy5h pic.twitter.com/Dhc38CDuE2
This is a separate point but I find it interesting that Gaetz, like Roy Moore did In his failed Senate campaign, disses McConnell. What are their actual policy differences? MM supported taking health care away from millions, a tax cut for the rich, conservative judges, etc. /5
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Entrepreneur\u2019s mind.
— James Clear (@JamesClear) August 22, 2020
Athlete\u2019s body.
Artist\u2019s soul.
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When you choose who to follow on Twitter, you are choosing your future thoughts.
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Working on a problem reduces the fear of it.
— James Clear (@JamesClear) August 30, 2020
It\u2019s hard to fear a problem when you are making progress on it\u2014even if progress is imperfect and slow.
Action relieves anxiety.
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We often avoid taking action because we think "I need to learn more," but the best way to learn is often by taking action.
— James Clear (@JamesClear) September 23, 2020
For three years I have wanted to write an article on moral panics. I have collected anecdotes and similarities between today\u2019s moral panic and those of the past - particularly the Satanic Panic of the 80s.
— Ashe Schow (@AsheSchow) September 29, 2018
This is my finished product: https://t.co/otcM1uuUDk
The 3 big things that made the 1980's/early 1990's surreal for me.
1) Satanic Panic - satanism in the day cares ahhhh!
2) "Repressed memory" syndrome
3) Facilitated Communication [FC]
All 3 led to massive abuse.
"Therapists" -and I use the term to describe these quacks loosely - would hypnotize people & convince they they were 'reliving' past memories of Mom & Dad killing babies in Satanic rituals in the basement while they were growing up.
Other 'therapists' would badger kids until they invented stories about watching alligators eat babies dropped into a lake from a hot air balloon. Kids would deny anything happened for hours until the therapist 'broke through' and 'found' the 'truth'.
FC was a movement that started with the claim severely handicapped individuals were able to 'type' legible sentences & communicate if a 'helper' guided their hands over a keyboard.
Ironies of Luck https://t.co/5BPWGbAxFi
— Morgan Housel (@morganhousel) March 14, 2018
"Luck is the flip side of risk. They are mirrored cousins, driven by the same thing: You are one person in a 7 billion player game, and the accidental impact of other people\u2019s actions can be more consequential than your own."
I’ve always felt that the luckiest people I know had a talent for recognizing circumstances, not of their own making, that were conducive to a favorable outcome and their ability to quickly take advantage of them.
In other words, dumb luck was just that, it required no awareness on the person’s part, whereas “smart” luck involved awareness followed by action before the circumstances changed.
So, was I “lucky” to be born when I was—nothing I had any control over—and that I came of age just as huge databases and computers were advancing to the point where I could use those tools to write “What Works on Wall Street?” Absolutely.
Was I lucky to start my stock market investments near the peak of interest rates which allowed me to spend the majority of my adult life in a falling rate environment? Yup.