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thanks for the kind words and for giving us the gift of books!!!

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I remember someone posting that whenever someone mentioned “Cancel culture” she’d whip out her phone and show them Louie CK tour schedule. I remember last year when some racist asshat country music guy got even mildly reprehended for his n-word drunken diatribes and blatant anti-Black racism- the CMA’s came roaring back and gave him every award imaginable. What do you mean by cancel culture? There’s no accountability on the right. Trump’s famous line in the 2016 election was he bragged he could walk down 5th Ave in broad daylight and shoot people in the face and people would still vote for him (kinda like Dick Cheney shot that guy). There’s zero accountability. That’s why we had a coup on January 6th. Keep blaming Colin Kaepernick for being divisive. Cancel culture is Trump yelling “Get that guy off the field!” When Kaepernick took a knee to protest police killing Black people, and the entire NFL canceled Kaepernick’s career. My brother Jude Santana who was a democrat and a DA in Nashville worked to elect fellow Democrat Glenn Funk to the DA’s office. Then in February 2017 the entire DA’s office made up of white guy Democrats boycotted the Super Bowl (after they’d black balled Kaepernick) in protest of Colin Kaepernick to teach that uppity n word a lesson. So fuck this guy saying the reason the left isn’t winning is cancel culture.

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I agree entirely as Cancel Culture. The one difference I might note is that it has always existed on the Right, the Left were the champions of Free speech, and that does seem to have eroded lately.

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And still the Left is going to lose again. You ask WHY? The Left used to be the defender of scientific truth. Now? Sex is a matter of choice? Gender Ok, Lifestyles Ok, but Biology exists; as I used to scream at Right-Wing Nuts & Fundamentalist Christians who deny Evolution by Natural Selection. Now the Left seems to be the most Vocal Opponent of Science, Reason, & The Age of Enlightenment.

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October 24, 2022
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I fail to see why this is a response to my point. I say gender OK, but Sex is a Biological Fact.

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I loved learning the idea of the "golden gate of retreat"!

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October 18, 2022
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