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every time i write i think about that maya angelou quote where she talks about her editor asking her why she uses semicolons instead of colons and says she has often responded by threatening to never speak to him again

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*covered in blood* I'm literally fine guys. im still funny. Would you like to hear a joke Im going to tell you a joke

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I love using "by the way" as a segue into topics that are completely unrelated to the matters at hand. it isn't remotely by the way, quite a ways out of the way in fact. a little adventure

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i hate how quickly veggies go bad like not even just lettuce its like they love dying

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Ain't my circus but I would know my monkeys anywhere.

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"trans people deserve love respect and dignity" - sweet nothing, pablum, easy to co-opt into nonperformative statements, it's giving Labour Party

"Public Official X's specific decision to Y is completely unevidenced and is harming trans people. Public Official X should resign or face consequences." - unco-optable, focused on justice, deliciously angry

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last night was a heavy-handed allegory for the crucifixion

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Because someone is on the ball, Turner Classic is playing (among other WWII films) The Great Dictator today.

If you haven't seen it, please do. It was produced by Charlie Chaplin in the late 1930s, when it became clear that the war was going to happen, and came out in 1940 after it had started. Essentially, Chaplin realized that his famous mustache was about to be usurped forever by a fascist, and that fascist was going to kill a lot more people in the future than he had already.

It's a parody, made before the worst horrors of the Nazi regime were known to the general public, so there is discomfort here (if you've seen Disney's Der Fuhrer's Face, you'll get the idea), but the movie ends with Chaplin essentially saying "fuck it, no one else seems to be speaking out about this and I'm going to use my platform to do that."

For context, this character is a Jew who has been mistaken for the dictator (for obvious mustache-related reasons), and has been sent onstage at a rally to give a speech. Instead of trying to impersonate Hitler, he says what he really thinks. And keep in mind, Chaplin was coming out of semi-retirement for this. It was the first time most people had ever heard him speak, and this is what he said:

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- Timothy Snyder. The first and perhaps most important lesson from On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons for the Twentieth Century (2017)

Snyder's new book, On Freedom, was published in 2024.

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they're boiling me in oil tomorrow and the day after as well

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not aromantic but I believe in their beliefs.

"there's no platonic explanation for this" try harder bucko

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i think im getting better! :) [another event occurs]

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who else up learning things the hard way

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if you're in the throes of cosmic despair i cannot recommend museums enough. art or science or history it doesn't matter. oh we're all connected, all of us and everything, throughout all time and space, and no one, no one, no one is alone? awesome. that's what i thought i just wanted to make sure.

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Google search how to reset the body's score counter. Google average score kept by body. Body score counting rigged site:reddit.com

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me in the. me in. the. uhm.

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Maybe this therapy shit is working