Lighten up, Francis

Your newest, bestest buddy, and big toe. Mainly here to learn about the experiences of people whose demographics I'm not a part of.
Assume good faith, mkay?

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@TheVotersSay @Acyn If they sell the people who buy pay the taxes. Unless they sell for under $5M. Wouldn’t they lose more selling for that little then what they’d pay in taxes?

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@RossKneeDeep I don’t believe that’s real.

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@Sassafrass_84 Doesn’t work at accomplishing what? What’s your standard for “working” and how did you arrive at that standard?

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@zennioptical Are these helpful for people experiencing glare after cataract surgery?

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@mehdirhasan Does the possibility exist that in at least a couple of instances, the meaning being attributed to his words isn’t a meaning intended by him?

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@LastRainbowFlag @mehdirhasan His stat that more humans have been lost to abortion than the holocaust is factual. It sounds like perhaps your disagreement with him lies in his belief that unborn humans’ lives have equal value to those who have already been born and not his stat.

[Free Black Thought @FreeBlckThought]

"Charlie Kirk and I were not friends. At all. In the last week of his life we were beefing hard. ... But the day before he died he did something that shocked me. He sent me a personal message calling for personal dialogue, wanting me to come on his show. He said we could be gentlemen together. He said we could deal with our disagreements agreeably. In the past week and a half watching people talk about civil wars and censorship and all this stuff coming out of his death, I just thought it was important to let people know, don't put that on Charlie Kirk. Because the last day of his life, he was reaching out to have—not more censorship—more conversation, more dialogue, with somebody who was one of his adversaries, me." @VanJones68

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Vilifying the other is how we got here.

Shame on everyone who does it.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

Pray for the safety of everyone at Charlie Kirk's memorial in Arizona tomorrow.

The Left is evil.

[Van Jones @VanJones68]

The day before he was horrifically murdered, Charlie Kirk sent me a direct message on X.

Unfortunately, before I could even respond, Charlie Kirk was killed — seemingly assassinated for the words he'd spoken.

I've taken issue with many of those words — sometimes strongly — but never his right to speak them. Never his right to express those views and then go home to his family. That is a sacred American value.

Kirk’s murder gives us all reason to come back to the table for dialogue. There is a rising tide of political violence that has already swept away his life and many others’ lives, from both the Left and the Right.

Violence like this should compel people in both parties to turn down the heat, seek common ground and look for off-ramps from the vitriol — as Kirk was doing with me, the day before he died.

We can choose to go the way of more violence, more outrage and more censorship — if we want to.

But if we choose censorship and civil war, we cannot blame that choice on Charlie Kirk!

From his last 24 hours, I have the proof that he wanted to go a very different way.

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@ScottJenningsKY “Honor a guy we know you don’t like” and “Condemn political violence” should never have been in the same resolution.

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A- freakin-men.

The people on both sides with the loudest voices all seem to genuinely believe “My side always has pure intentions, your side is full of nothing but bad actors”.

What a horrible place to be as a country. I have no idea where we go from here.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

In a moment like this, when tensions are high, part of the job of the president is to remind us of the ties that bind us together.

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Got my copy! This is the first Goodreads giveaway I REEEEALLY wanted to win and I won! Looking forward to it!

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@nickmmark Maybe “ignorant about your stat” ≠ “they’re a bonehead?

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@StephenM I wonder if they would have voted differently on the “Condemning his assassination” part if they didn’t also have to vote affirmatively on the “Honoring his life” part at the same time.

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@bitteropiate @TylerBranstet1 @GregAbbott_TX I was replying to
@TylerBranstet1
’s meme not Abbott. Should’ve deleted his handle. My bad.

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@Vreivai @TylerBranstet1 @GregAbbott_TX I was replying to
@TylerBranstet1
’s meme not Abbott. Should’ve deleted his handle. My bad.

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@Hubgrtvnkihbbb @TylerBranstet1 I was replying to @TylerBranstet1’s meme not Abbott. Should’ve deleted his handle. My bad.

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@lisa_liberal It’s probably less about being “allowed” to say something and more about some companies not wanting the kind of people who would celebrate someone’s murder on their payroll.

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