Garrett Epp

Canadian-born professor, now a tour guide in France, having taught and learned from students from over 3 dozen countries over the past 45+ years

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@TuCreavitNos @jasonllevin Large companies fund research that will bring them profit. Federal funding is supposed to be less biased, allowing for real innovation, which requires error, dead ends, and long term experimentation. Non-profitable university-level stuff. The stuff your government cuts.

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@rcoiteux @_Qstormrider Give those billions to the poor suffering billionaires, the CEOs, the oligarchs! Spend billions more on useless wars that drive up prices across the world! But no do not spend anything to alleviate the suffering of poor people. Make sure that all the world hates the USA!

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@benonwine His politics were evident from the start, in so many songs

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@kirawontmiss I live in France, where tipping is rare, and minimal. Servers are generally excellent, and knowledgeable; this is a profession, with living wages, healthcare, and the rest.

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@ForgiatoBlow47 No one I have ever met supports the current regime in Iran, but no one outside of Israel and MAGA supports this illegal and pointless war, which is driving the whole world into economic crisis, and many into starvation.

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@Mschatnoir Deep forest honey is generally black. And delicious.

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@Mschatnoir Cultures and meanings change. A modern audience even in England could not possibly understand Shakespeare's work in the same ways as his original audiences did. Modern Greeks are not their ancestors. Nor is this film aimed at the few who can actually read Homer's original text.

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@FortressLugh Like... would anyone ever accept a non-Middle-Eastern-Jewish actor playing Jesus? Oh wait...

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@travelingflying https://t.co/4mjs4Koqfr

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@gogmork @ClimateWarrior7 Yet it has long been common to see white actors playing non-white characters, from Othello to Fu Manchu to Tonto and many, many more.

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@MrBiglyTruth @Rothmus "Communism is not Socialism. Marxism is not Socialism. The Marxians have stolen the term and confused its meaning. I shall take Socialism away from the Socialists. Socialism is an ancient Aryan, Germanic institution...." (Hitler 1923)

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@GarffTheGreat @realcopeaganda @PositivFuturist Vaccines

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@DIOtheWizard @HomerPavlos You cannot understand the original text but you can determine which is the best translation ...?

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@WaysToGo_Hamby @MattWalshBlog The great (& Greek) Irene Papas did not play Helen as a blonde, either

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@GermanYahtzee @redpillb0t Sir David Salomons became the first Jewish Lord Mayor in 1855 (having served as the first Jewish High Sheriff and then Alderman, which required changing the oath of office). The next was Sir Benjamin Samuel Phillips a decade later, then Sir Samuel Joseph in 1943. That's it.

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@travelingflying White dudes who cannot admire or identify with onscreen characters that are not similarly white, while expecting everyone else to admire and identify with white heroes, effectively make a good argument for more diversity in cinematic representation

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@LaneB7777 @covie_93 Biden was caught saying that on a hot mic, and within the hour called the reporter to apologise personally.

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@JamiethaFounder @RickyDoggin The editor long ago said she wrote it, and made the error.

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@_ciphersmith_ @dannycantalk Within a 15 min walk from home here are 2 farmers markets, numerous stores, pubs, & restaurants, as well as my physician, dentist, & more. Walking to the main train station, opera, art galleries, or any of the three nearest cinemas takes under 30 min. Or I can cycle.