We live in a time that people are more inclined to obey an unlawful executive order than they are to follow a court order 🤦🏾♀️.
Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!
I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
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A man who holds the title of President of the United States, who took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, who then says he doesn’t know if he’d uphold the Constitution, is unfit to be president and should be removed.
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sometimes i wonder how many versions of myself i’ve outgrown without even noticing. i look back at old photos and remember the thoughts i used to carry, the dreams i thought would save me. it’s strange how you can live inside yourself every day and still not realize you’re evolving. it’s only when you look back that you realize how far you’ve come, how many lives you’ve already lived in the same skin.
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I know the smart thing to do is say nothing, but: I’m sorry I read the tweets in that accent given the subject matter. Jesse asked if I could do an Elon impression, I said “yes” — first rule of improv, “yes and!” — even though the truthful answer would have been “no”. I can’t do South African, and it came out as this cartoonish-y New Zealand-ish thing, which was the wrong vibe for such a serious topic. Bad call on my part, I’m sorry.
Neither of you did anything wrong. There are people here that are taking Elon's tweets very seriously, despite the fact that they are in incredibly bad faith, stupid, misinformed, and obviously just some cynical political ploy. Elon's posting here doesn't deserve any special treatment.
That's also been the tone of the show forever. Jesse and Katie have cracked jokes over serious stories for years and no one here has a problem with it when it's about gender or woke shit. If the first half of the …
I think you're missing the point. Elon's tweets are, well... Elon tweets. And pointing that out is worthwhile. My frustration (and the frustration of many) is that Jesse seemed to be using the fact that Elon tweeted soma dumb shit about it as a reason to dismiss the issue entirely as "old news", which (based on what I've seen) is an unwise characterization.
I understand, but that's a very naive reading of what he's doing. "Yeah I understand he's only doing this for partisan interest AND he doesn't know anything about what he's talking about AND none of what he's saying is relevant to his attacks on Labour AND most of what he's saying isn't true, BUT we need to take what he's saying incredibly seriously" is silly and belies a shallow partisan understanding of politics that I just cannot stand.
Also, he spent a good chunk of the pod talking about the…
I'm not taking anything Elon says on Twitter seriously. I'm taking British feminists like Julie Bindel seriously when they say this topic is worth bringing to light and that it isn't just a matter of "it was handled back when it happened, no need to talk about it now" - that latter characterization is what I'm referring to as "dismissing the issue" on Jesse's part. From what I've read, it's simply not true.
Indeed. The underlying issues of integration are worse than ever. Dismissing these symptoms just makes it worse.
Just last year we had Muslim riots because social services tried to take a child away from their parents, and a case of a Pakistani father torturing his daughter to death before fleeing the country to Pakistan with the rest of his family.
Could these things have nothing to do with religion or ethnicity? Perhaps. Is that statistically likely? Not really.
"we had Muslim riots because social services tried to take a child away from their parents"
Did we? Where? If you mean Harehills, the family in conflict with social services there were Roma and unlikely to be Muslim.
Oh, wow, you're right! I knew it was a strongly Pakistani neighborhood, so assumed. And apologise for spreading fake news.
But this is a case of the news not actually explaining what is going on, with vague allusions to "communities" which actually hurts more than it helps, as people like me are left to fill in the blanks. Doesn't excuse my accidental smearing, but we have to talk to each other like grown-ups.
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Regardless of how it was done, putting this together is impressive.
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Calling a child a racial slur to pay for my cancer surgery
