If you understand that apartheid was an economic system first, and a brutally violent system of social segregation second, you'll understand how Elon Musk is trying to update the principles from his homeland, and bring about a neo-apartheid system in the US.
My latest in @thenation
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Everyone who's gone on for years and years and years about the apolitical child of a politician having a substance abuse problem just voted to give a former heroin/coke addict and alcoholic a position in the president's cabinet.
Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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DuckDuckGo is the best alternative search engine anonymous & doesn’t track your data
Proton Mail is a privacy/digital freedoms centered great alternative to Gmail
Brave Browser is a privacy browser alternative to Chrome
i suggest folks start migrating
The mixed response to @kendricklamar’s Super Bowl performance is a necessary reminder that someone’s inability to understand you doesn’t make you any less brilliant.
Since 2011, the SSA started randomizing SSN issuance, preventing any predictable patterns. SSNs are unique—no "duplicates" in the system.
Fraud happens through identity theft, not duplicate SSNs. Elon is intentionally spreading misinformation now.
Gregg Abbott, the governor of Texas, using the wheelchair access infrastructure, built because of inclusivity policies, to get to his office and sign a bill dismantling DEI is peak brain rot.
I dont dislike Emmanuel Acho just because he is clearly an Anti Black African man whose entire focus in life is being a yes man for white men. I dislike him because he chooses too often to speak on behalf of a culture he isn’t apart of.