Dan Altman

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@TexasGOP Wow, we have been bought by the Democrats

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@TheCinesthetic https://t.co/7XuJ7nuUrD

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For about a century, other men had appeared in growing numbers; they were jovial and slimy, they lacked even the relative innocence of monkeys, they were carried along by their infernal mission to gnaw away & corrode any bond, to annihilate everything that was necessary & human.

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@KathyfromTX Her campaign feels like a John Hughes movie where the teachers' pet is running for student body president and she claims the rich kid Bushes and cheerleaders Beyonce and Taylor are coming to her party, but they all ghost her.

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@ElonMNews Yes, in 2016, 2020 and 2024.

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For six thousand years there was no progress and no evidence of any impulse to change anything. People were fine with the way things were. In other words, this is not a people experiencing spiritual desolation. You and I need new diversions nightly. Nathan Hall -- The Nix.

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The spiritual nature of reality has been the principal preoccupation of mankind since forever and it's not going away anytime soon. The notion that everything is just stuff doesn't seem to do it for us. - Alicia Western, in McCarthy's Stella Maris.

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@TimKennedyMMA Tim is right. Write a book of misinformation prohibited by a nation's laws, sell it and see what happens.

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Part of the complexity of living through history is the process of explaining things about the past that you never explained to yourself. So many temporary realities, distantly viewed in the rearview mirror, will appear ridiculous to any person who wasn't there. -- C. Klosterman

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@IsabellaMDeLuca Fun fact: Government employees can't be fired for exercising their right to free speech except under certain narrow conditions. Private employees have no such protection. State laws could and should provide the same protections to those in the private sector.

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America has become a land of first world expectations, second world supply chain, and third world productivity, inflation, and work ethics.

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@Cernovich This year: Let Them Look West

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Past a certain point, life stopped getting better. Oh, but you have an electronic phone watch. Oh, but you have a robot that answers questions on command. . . Oh, but we have things we didn't have before so the Earth must be pointed upwards after all. M. Ma, Harassment Arch.

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"I figured that somewhere online, there must be a list of Americans who will believe anything, no matter how implausible or insulting to their intelligence."
"Is there such a list?"
Sergei spun white froth in his glass. "Tom Hanks's Facebook fan page."
-- Anthony Marra.

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Data must be used to tell the truth, not to call to action, no matter how noble the intentions. -- Hans Rosling

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@KathrynAltman Lydia Bean is trash, who isn't even funny making tired jokes about Brian Harrison being a labrododdle breeder. He would crush her in a debate. At least pick a decent blue candidate with some class.

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The prolonged absence of any free exchange of information within a country opens up a gulf of incomprehension between whole groups of the population, between millions and millions.
We simply cease to be a single people, for we speak, indeed, different languages.

A. Solzhenitsyn

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@NickAdamsinUSA Seen this? https://t.co/5Ugl6WwHwA

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Twitter is trash and these food companies are monsters.

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All of the bookstores and publishers getting upset about food companies using their respective snacks as "bookmarks" is by far my favorite Twitter war I've seen in all my time here

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@CathyAltman Seth is right. Sarcasm is a poor communication tool.