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· 6 Nisan 5782 (Thursday 7 April 2022) · 0 minutes to read

Precisely! Polls are now entirely performative.
And respondents--just like pols on TV--answer the question they want to be asked, not the one that is asked. Thus approval ratings have nichts to do with the person.
Polls have become Festivus poles. https://t.co/XDjL9D6Bsp

— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) April 6, 2022
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· 6 Nisan 5782 (Thursday 7 April 2022) · 0 minutes to read
Is It Okay to Use the ‘G-Word’? by Jonah Goldberg
The U.N. definition of genocide is legalistic and the result of compromise. So it’s worth looking at Putin’s intent.
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· 6 Nisan 5782 (Thursday 7 April 2022) · 0 minutes to read
Are The Sanctions Stopping Putin? by Charlie Sykes
Plus: Christopher Rufo's Troll
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· 6 Nisan 5782 (Thursday 7 April 2022) · 0 minutes to read
Democrats Are Screwed No Matter What They Do by Jonathan V. Last
There is no world in which Democrats could have won in 2022 by being more moderate and working-class friendly.
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· 6 Nisan 5782 (Thursday 7 April 2022) · 0 minutes to read
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· 6 Nisan 5782 (Thursday 7 April 2022) · 0 minutes to read
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· 6 Nisan 5782 (Thursday 7 April 2022) · 0 minutes to read
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· 6 Nisan 5782 (Thursday 7 April 2022) · 0 minutes to read
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· 6 Nisan 5782 (Thursday 7 April 2022) · 0 minutes to read
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· 5 Nisan 5782 (Wednesday 6 April 2022) · 0 minutes to read

Redefining grooming and slinging false accusations of sympathy for pedophilia is pure malice. Blue checks doing it on this website know better, but lots of ordinary folks don't. They hear the words and apply their ordinary meaning. That's incredibly dangerous. /end

— David French (@DavidAFrench) April 5, 2022
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· 5 Nisan 5782 (Wednesday 6 April 2022) · 0 minutes to read

The slinging of the word "groomer" or insinuations of sympathy for pedophilia by the same people who spent *years* stanning for the man who appeared in "Playboy Video Centerfold: Playmate 2000 Bernaola Twins" (and that might be the least worst thing he did) is just too much. /1

— David French (@DavidAFrench) April 5, 2022
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· 5 Nisan 5782 (Wednesday 6 April 2022) · 0 minutes to read
Against the 'Groomer' Smear by David French (The Dispatch)
It's not 'pro-pedophile' to back Ketanji Brown Jackson, and it's not 'grooming' to oppose Florida's new education law.
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· 5 Nisan 5782 (Wednesday 6 April 2022) · 0 minutes to read

So obviously this is a sick person defending Ron Desantis staff accusing people of being child rapists.

But the point is also BS. Opponents called the bill “Don’t say gay” because the initial legislation, which Ron supported, did literally ban “discussion” of sexual orientation. https://t.co/JdkQIZS43F

— Tim Miller (@Timodc) April 6, 2022
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· 5 Nisan 5782 (Wednesday 6 April 2022) · 0 minutes to read

If you were wondering whether Substack already internalized that the challenges that plagued the Web and tech platforms for decades are coming for them... no they haven't https://t.co/v8sfJYrYrZ

— Mor Naaman (@informor) April 5, 2022
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· 5 Nisan 5782 (Wednesday 6 April 2022) · 0 minutes to read

This is not what grooming is, and not what anyone thinks grooming is. Also, it relies on the idea that everyone was born cis and heterosexual until somebody else like, showed them "Paris is Burning" or something. https://t.co/CAPFjniquw pic.twitter.com/RKw68HxgMs

— Jane Coaston (@janecoaston) April 6, 2022
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· 5 Nisan 5782 (Wednesday 6 April 2022) · 0 minutes to read

With "groomer," we may have reached maximum rhetorical outrage. We've already seen dehumanizing language re: migrants, BLM, and COVID. What else is there after calling every perceived enemy a pedophile?
But if escalating rhetoric can't provide the outrage fix anymore, what will? https://t.co/1F5uWEDZTG

— Nicholas Grossman (@NGrossman81) April 6, 2022
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· 5 Nisan 5782 (Wednesday 6 April 2022) · 0 minutes to read

the press will spend a week amplifying false GOP claims that a top Supreme Court pick is a pedophile in headlines as a valid policy position, but the very second somebody calls the radical authoritarian GOP exactly what it is, they all rush to the fainting couches https://t.co/H2brxeKxTJ

— Karl Bode (@KarlBode) April 6, 2022
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· 5 Nisan 5782 (Wednesday 6 April 2022) · 1 minute to read
Proposed legislation could legalize child marriage in Tennessee by Joyce Peterson (actionnews5.com)
A bill being pushed through the Tennessee legislature has no age requirements for marriage

Not gonna lie, I saw a couple of tweets about this and figured it was just Twitter hysterea so I decided to double check.

And no Republicans, if this passes, and a single minor is involved in a common law marriage woopsy, you are absolutely not going to be able to plead lack of knowledge or good intentions when that particular shit hits the fan. This will be a car you’ve caught fair and square.

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· 5 Nisan 5782 (Wednesday 6 April 2022) · 0 minutes to read

Yup. They’re cynically and repulsively adopting the *language* of child abuse to resurrect the vile old smear that gay (and apparently trans?) adults are out to “recruit” children who are otherwise inherently straight & cis. https://t.co/tlHJE83Xfc

— Julian Sanchez (@normative) April 6, 2022
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· 5 Nisan 5782 (Wednesday 6 April 2022) · 0 minutes to read

In every other context, conservatives would recoil in horror from the idea that judges should just fill in the gaps of a vague, extremely punitive law with a private enforcement mechanism.

But when it comes to queer people, it's "let's get some precedents on the books." https://t.co/HBMm5niY7M

— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) April 6, 2022
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