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Remittancegirl

@Remittancegirl@mstdn.social

Writer, reader, worrier, lefty, PhD. Lacanian. Cat addict and cook. Complicator. Vehemently anti-reductionist. Militantly unverifiable. Lives in Spain; misses Vietnam

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Most politicians spend their lives serving themselves.

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter spent their lives serving others.

How ironic that one of the only truly 'Christian' Presidents didn't ever boast about it.

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So… my vet tells me that antivax lunacy has now spread to pet owners who are convinced that vaccines will give their pets autism.

Fuck these cretinous halfwits

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"6.8% of American adults are currently experiencing symptoms, according to a new survey from" .

Nearly 3X as many - "17.6% of American adults" - report having at some point.

This is "an 'alarming' increase in recent months even as the health agency relaxes Covid isolation recommendations, experts say.

...an estimated 17.6 million Americans" now suffer symptoms.

Additional Americans have SARS-caused heart disease, diabetes, etc.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/15/long-covid-symptoms-cdc

Remittancegirl,
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@chargrille Telling people it is alright for them to mingle with other people when they are still infectious WITH ANY INFECTIOUS disease is flat out amoral.

There are many people with weakened immune systems whose lives are put at risk by this.

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So, I've been working on hatching a theoretical structure to address the quandary of MAGA for a long time. I think it is almost impossible to combat it unless one can identify grasp the causal factors of the eruption of a mass psychosis. This is going to be a really long thread and I'm developing it slowly. Please feel free to mute me if this irritates you - I'm thinking aloud here. And most of my ideas aren't original, I'm just sometimes gathering them together in novel ways.

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What disturbed me most about listening to the Supreme Court questions in yesterday's hearing was the repeated demands for responses to the threat that other states could kick other candidates off ballots willy-nilly. The case is before the SC BECAUSE the highest court in CO found Trump guilty of insurrection and - because of this - kicked him off the ballot

Those questions contain in their essence an implication that the rule of law no longer holds sway in the US.

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Woody would like to know precisely why he can't come with

Remittancegirl,
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@rgarner When Jacques was a tiny kitten, not only did she curl up in my open suitcase, but burrowed under my clothes. I missed a flight to Bangkok when, while standing in the check-in line, I heard angry mewing.

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Welcome to a sedate Sunday. Dora is in the spotlight

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For the longest time, I was pretty neutral about people who chose to remain on twitter, or who kept that account to post and read career or business stuff.

But, no more.

If you stay on that platform, after its owner's formal embrace of blatant antisemitism, I am disappointed in you.

Yes, I get that it may affect you negatively to quit, but sometimes doing the right thing hurts. That's why there's nobility in it.

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Dora doesn’t give a fuck for gravity or dignity

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It is a considerable thing to comprehend that the USA, if Trump is elected, might be bought outright for half a billion dollars.

Ponder that.

Remittancegirl, to random
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Hey people. Just a reminder that our admins are working hard for us all. Won't you please chip in and help them with their costs?

Remittancegirl, to random
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While I would much prefer that large tech companies like Meta fuck off forever and that I never have to encounter them, I think this is, in reality, something of a fantasy. They're parasitic - they'll seek out eyeballs wherever they are.

But you don't have to use. You don't have to click. You can personally refused to engage. You can help educate others on the hidden costs of the convenience they offer.

But they aren't going to stop trying to colonize. It's the nature of parasites to do this

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RIP Alexey Navaly

No one can be surprised by this, but he gave his life, knowingly, heroically for the country he loved beyond his own life.

He could have kept himself safe, but he chose a level of mad courage beyond most people’s imagination.

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I'm posting this, because I occasionally need to remind myself of this, and perhaps you do to:

The things that other people do that piss you off are often not designed to annoy you. They're the way that other person has formulated to get through the life they have.

It's often the only way they know how to cope with the cards they've been dealt.

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Sadly, I have been taken off the electoral roll and cannot vote in this election because I have lived outside of the uk for more than five years.

However, if you CAN vote, please do. Also, please check to see what type of identification you are going to need to vote, because they've gotten tricky about it.

Don't let the bastards make you feel like it's not worth bothering. It is.

Even if things get a TINY bit better.

Remittancegirl,
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Have you got reason to believe all politics is bollocks, and there is no party that represents all of your aspirations?

Then please vote to punish the motherfuckers who've been in power for 13 years and presided over the poisoning of your water, the decimation of your healthcare system, Brexit, the deaths in care homes, and the corruption.

If you don't punish these fuckers by ousting them after all this shit, you teach EVERY politician that there are no consequences to their perfidy.

Remittancegirl,
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These shits are DEPENDING on your apathy. They're depending on you feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, alienated. They are itching to make you vote for a party that cannot possibly take power by ratcheting up your disagreement with some of the opposition's policies. They're going to find every wound that divides us and pour salt in those wounds.

Please... do not let them do this.

Make these bastards pay of all the misery they've inflicted on the UK, while they and their friends grew rich.

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    Remittancegirl,
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    @DrALJONES I think this is something that doesn't get said often enough... The actions of Israel are fundamentally dangerous to Jews around the world.

    Remittancegirl, to random
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    Determined

    Remittancegirl, to random
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    Jacques has been hanging out on the bench for days. There’s a pigeon who sits on the wall, teasing her.

    Remittancegirl, to random
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    Why yes, I’m totally watching the

    Remittancegirl, to animals
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    Dora needs to put her scent in ALL the groceries!

    Remittancegirl, to random
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    I don’t need to agree on everything with someone to consider them courageous or heroic.

    They don’t even have to share my political orientation.

    I consider Liz Cheney pretty courageous and heroic and I’m quite sure I disagree with 90% of her positions.

    Remittancegirl, to random
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    I'm so fucking deeply pissed off. I've tried to find a way to frame this with a wider lens, but that will take a while.

    The SCOTUS has decided that the conceit of putting their finger on the scales is more important than affording the American people the opportunity to make an informed choice in the upcoming election.

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    The phrase "Justice delayed is justice denied" is fundamental to jurisprudence.

    SCOTUS's granting of certiorari on the DC appellate court's decision cannot be decontextualized. They may be venal, but they're not stupid. They KNOW that granting cert is justice denied and that the consequences are as grave as any consequence can be.

    Shame on them.

    StillIRise1963, to random
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    McDonald’s found out no one NEEDS a fucking burger.

    Remittancegirl,
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    @StillIRise1963 @timo21 or killed them

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