CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@smitten_ lotta places out of that these days

@smitten_ dems consider "respect" an unalloyed good. respect the constitution. respect The Process. respect the klan and MLK jr. if, in a cafeteria, a journalist asked what their stance was, they'd firmly state their respect for ham sandwiches and little bags of potato chips.

@smitten_ -within 1 minute

@smitten_ its really somethin how "snowflake" has always been a confession.

@smitten_ "those were the times that i carried you, err, wait, wtf did you do?"

@smitten_ who could have predicted the high priests obsessed with "what the founders wanted" would revoke civil rights from Black people??

@smitten_ "ready in 9 minutes" maybe in a world where we keep large pots of water boiling 24/7.

@smitten_ racism in the USA: illegal

@smitten_ its been shown that airplanes are safer if there's more than one pilot so to improve on that we gave every passenger a set of controls and then average them out.

@smitten_ "Science" always played this role in the liberal vision of society: as a confirmation tool and support for authoritarianism, not an exploration and discovery tool in search of reality. The severing of "data-based decisionmaking" from actual, plausible data gathering was guaranteed from the moment neofascists replaced paleofascism's "disbelieve your eyes and ears" with "data is God; here's the data"."AI" helps them immensely in this effort, btw.