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@ClwnPrncCharlie Curious about how OP is distinguishing between “ethnic/immigrant enclaves” and “transplants”

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@hellspatisserie Definitely not about their own: Governments, especially ones in tension with the state’s “people”, are rarely great places to work

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World Cup is basically my best Africans vs your best Africans

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I think this shows in how often self-identified (recovering/ex-)addicts personify addiction as a bad, toxic, or abusive relationship when they narrate their own lives

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Susceptibility to peer pressure is not so much an antecedent to “drug addiction” as it is an earlier object of the same coping mechanism; most people make friends before they use drugs

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@b_n_d_l_e He combines the stalest, most aggravating elements of late-2010s left-Twitter style with the most idiotic and noxious “takes” he can paraphrase from other viral right-wing posts from the week

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@PaupersWeight Definitely—online “Left-Coms” come to mind as a sub-group who seem to labor under this assumption already. For example rigid insistence on terms: “Marx was not a philosopher”, “communism is the real movement which abolishes the present state of thing”, etc.

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@xenogothic I agree

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@richmondie Please inform the Brits I’ve been reading and hearing lately—it might help solve the problem I mentioned above!

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I have read and heard so much British English lately that my intuition has almost fully switched to preferring "an historian"

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@glosseantics I agree! But my rival is just so, so stubborn...

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My intellectual rival and I are locked in debate over whether an emoji constitutes a form of punctuation

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😭❤️✌️

(^ Literally, my actual emotions at all times. Lol.)

❤︎︎ 𝒮𝒽𝒶𝓇ℯ 𝒾𝒻 𝒴ℴ𝓊 ℛℯ𝓁𝒶𝓉ℯ ❤︎︎

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Cruelly mocking my prehistoric ancestors

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@Affenschande_ Yeah absolutely—lots of "first-cousins once-removed" and the like in this family

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@Affenschande_ The previous generation of American "gay voice" was highly influenced by (and later preserved in) Hollywood movies. There aren't too many remaining extant speakers of that particular dialect, but it has shaped more recent ways of speaking significantly.

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Not in my capacity as an executive officer of a major, multinational corporation—but rather, as an AMERICAN CITIZEN, I condemn (so-called) President Donald J. Trump, in the *strongest* possible terms.

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You don’t have to love people despite their shortcomings, but you do have to love them anyway