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It's unlikely that I'll die via internecine violence, but if I do, I want everyone to come to my funeral dressed in chicken costumes to illustrate the core absurdity of human politics
☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️
@schwarz
☀️ The most important thing to understand about politics is Head Monkey Good, Not Bad. Stop saying Head Monkey Bad. ☀️
Joined August 2008
- You really can just email Elon Musk at [email protected]
- The fact that scientists were right to warn for decades about a pandemic makes me wonder if they might be right about global warming too
- As Biden cancels (some) student debt, remember why the debt exists. A key Reagan advisor warned in 1970 that free college was producing the dangerously explosive "dynamite" of an "educated proletariat," and "we have to be selective on who we allow to go through higher education":
- In a 2007 book, Shinzo Abe explained that he became conservative because he was angry that "some people" called his grandfather a war criminal for his actions during World War II. (His grandfather was a war criminal.)
- It's rare you get such a clear illustration of whose lives have value in America and whose don't
- Jimmy Carter is dead, and the U.S. has never reckoned with the "October Surprise" scandal — the fact that the 1980 Reagan campaign colluded with the Iranian government to make sure the American hostages weren't released before the election. This was genuine treason by the GOP.
- The most amazing thing about the catastrophic US healthcare system is that the solution was invented long ago in other countries. It's like we're refusing to use wheels.
- There was no way to predict Trump would act like this in office except for everything he'd ever done his entire life
- Humanity's lucky that we invented public sewage systems before we invented "free market" think tanks
- I can't believe Hamas is rejecting a ceasefire proposal merely because it doesn't include a ceasefire
- Kudos to humanity for manuevering ourselves into a situation where all our lives depend on the wisdom of Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump
