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Fun Fact! The first time I ever had a pizza with ham and pineapple was in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, at a time when (as far as I know) no-one in New York state had sold one like that.

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Not to mention he could never spell 'Gustavo Petro' right, he would probably write MS-1319, and it would of course be Columbia.

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Not me.

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It’s a cult, it’s all a cult with different sects. That’s why it’s so hard to fight it - people don’t care about facts. They care about their tribe and their psychological security and will go *mental* on anyone threatening that. Russia has found the US’ not-so-Secret weakness since 9/11, and priming people for this mad bull crap is easy as pie. I can only imagine that the way out of this quagmire is similar to getting people out of cults, which is the depressing part because it’s notoriously difficult to do from the outside in.

I remember some ex-Scientology folks having a moment that cracked the shell they’d put themselves in, and it varies, but often it was people showing kindness that they didn’t expect to. Obviously I’m not advocating for vulnerable populations to endanger themselves to sway people. I’m relatively safe being a progressive in another country, so I try to pop the bubble from time to time.

Usually I’m too pissed off to bother, though. LOL.

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I can't see that pizza map without thinking of this stroke of (sub)genius by Paul Mavrides: https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

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I wondered that too, perhaps she has dissociated herself? You only hear about Claire funding him.

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ok you don't have to be in a tribe. every rule has exceptions. :)

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Still waiting for the news that Twitter has banned Coronaspreader-in-Chief Trump. Still crickets. Or maybe just my tinnitus.

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we were social distancing before it was cool

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Twitter is shit.

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Lock her ass up.

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Reply All podcast’s Qanon explainer from 2 years ago

Reply All podcast maybe identifies Q.

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Yes, but more people were better equipped to deal with thus when they read actual books in school.

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You're saying that they are finally trying to curb the threat to human civilization? What took you guys so long?

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