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Alejandro doing his best Don Baylor

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@atrupar where wings take dream

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@pourmecoffee Asimov rolling in his grave

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@webcav1 @yourauntemma @SpencerHakimian it’s 1200 swabs

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@bureaucatliu The Right? on the other hand is sneakier, allowing the speaker to keep moving, presuming assent as they go. Best deployed in a podcast or long interview where the speaker may go on uninterrupted.

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@bureaucatliu I find the "Look, man" to be a blunter instrument, using irritation with the questioner to filibuster the discussion. It's best deployed in a short interview like on a Sunday show.

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@bureaucatliu Here's a Meet The Press episode with the Looks clipped from 2014, with both right and left offenders. https://t.co/jsfH0lXmnH

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@bureaucatliu It's similar to the "Look," tic which goes at the beginning of a statement, signaling that the speaker knows more than the listener so just "hold your horses while I give you the straight dope, little fella."

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@bureaucatliu You'll find it in most every podast, Ted Talk or corporate speech from a staff meeting to an annual shareholder meeting, left or right. Another liberal example, but I clipped a random episode of Vox's The Weeds podcast years ago for this reason: https://t.co/sMkhqpQSwP

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@bureaucatliu This is undeniably a thing, but I'm not so sure I agree 100% with your policework in attributing it to (political) liberals. The "right?" tic is a way to assert agreement and move on, and it's a rhetorial tactic for both right and left, though the Jen Psaki example is great.

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@celluloidfag https://t.co/E9CAmDZfcQ

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@JustinTrudeau but without tariffs, how will we pay for our childcare

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@chrislhayes bro you keep saying fuselage when you mean fusillade

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Guy: Rewrites docs for clarity

Microsoft: No, we want the documentation readable for AI not humans

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@TheAuthorGuy Ragnar Lothbrok

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@petergyang GitHub Issues

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@AnandWrites 💀

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Mr. Mom

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NIGHT SHIFT

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