Madeleine Morris

….reader, worrier, lefty, PhD. Lacanian. Complicator. Vehemently anti-reductionist. Militantly unverifiable. Lives in Spain; misses Vietnam. Proud childless cat lady. Enjoys making kimonos

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Gender: I appear to be stuck with the signifiers I got born with. But who knows? People change!

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2024-10-04 21:37:55

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hmm. Well, a survey of history kind of suggests otherwise but hey… you are entitled to believe whatever you need to.
[@POLITICOEurope](https://flipboard.com/@POLITICOEurope )

2024-10-04 21:36:13

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You should spend some time reading about Mao.
The truth is all absolutist ideology, whether left or right, leads to the same place: absolute intolerance for any other ideology. [@POLITICOEurope](https://flipboard.com/@POLITICOEurope )

2024-10-04 21:33:37

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unfortunately it’s more like a circular continuum. They meet at totalitarianism. [@POLITICOEurope](https://flipboard.com/@POLITICOEurope )

2024-10-04 21:26:29

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it’s actually very real. It’s like the people who went from voting for Bernie to voting for Trump. [@POLITICOEurope](https://flipboard.com/@POLITICOEurope )

2024-07-31 10:30:56

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I see you!!

2024-07-10 18:08:20

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I would never ask you to keep your mouth shut. That would be contrary to my foundational ethics

2024-07-10 15:44:59

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oh, I do want it. I’m eminently happy with Harris.
But do you truly think the mindset of your country right now is the one that elected Obama?
I wish that were true- truly.

2024-07-10 15:03:48

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If you are truly terrified, you will vote for whoever is not Trump and you will get your ass out there and beg everyone you know to do the same.
You will park your feelings about everything else, you will postpone every ideological ideal you aspired to... except for the one that ensures the continuation of a democratic process (however flawed it may be).
If everyone who feels like you can commit to that, no matter who the candidate is... you have a chance.

2024-07-10 14:58:35

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So... while this is about defeating Trump, you have other reasons for not wanting to support Biden, other than his age.
I'm still waiting for a name, please. An alternative who can appeal to the unaffiliated, undecided and the never-Trump Republicans.

2024-07-10 11:56:53

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I have the same anger at the DNC. What appalling irresponsibility

2024-07-10 11:35:47

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I’m not being purposefully uncivil and I hope it doesn’t come off that way. But you’re asking people to be rational and assess the situation from a place of neutrality. When you use pejorative descriptions, I see that you are not coming from that place. It shows an antagonism.
And perhaps you’re fully conscious of the demeaning descriptions you’re employing?
I was just giving you the benefit of the doubt that you aren’t ageist

2024-07-10 10:14:28

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Poorly-preserved oldster! Something in you, perhaps unconscious, can’t seem to avoid the pejoratives. What’s up with that?
And you still have not offered a concrete alternative.

2024-07-10 08:34:03

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I sincerely see underlying agendas. Well, I guess there always are.
But more to the point, I have yet to see a concrete proposal for an alternative who can win.
And when you ask an incumbent to step aside, you better come prepared with a solid alternative that can appeal to the kind of voters who might vote for Biden, but not for other possible Dem candidates. Because it is them that need persuading.

2024-07-10 08:16:00

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So... I absolutely agree with you that "Americans like forceful, energetic, aggressive people".
But the moment you use the descriptor 'feeble old man', it brings me up short and I ask myself hmmm what's operating under the surface here.
It's funny how words matter.

2024-07-06 07:28:54

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And the only way to get them to stop is to turn off EVERY TIME his face or voice comes on.

2024-07-06 06:47:37

I've been mulling over a rational response to the number of UK media outlets who keep obsessing over the number of Reform voters across the UK.
Not that they care what I have to say about it. But I think they know the hyping up of this figure is nothing but click grabs.
Because the reality is and always has been... there are racists among us. Yes, there are 1 million plus proud, staunch, unapologetic racists in the UK. Surprise!
If Brexit had been a FPTP affair, it would have never happened.

2024-07-05 17:38:58

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I'm not sure that response leads to a productive discussion. And aren't there enough instances of people dismissing each other and leaving hurtful one liners?
Wouldn't it be wonderful if together we could formulate some common ground? And if not, that we could agree that we have differences that don't make us bad people.
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2024-07-05 17:05:46

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I’m interested in the examples you brought up. That gives me insight into where you’re coming from.
If Biden could not communicate, how do you explain all the stuff he’s managed to get done?
I think he finds a way to communicate effectively. I just think that, when faced with a tsunami of absurd lies and fantasies , he choked.
I would have choked too. Many people would. It doesn’t make them ineffective communicators

2024-07-05 06:47:29

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I've boosted this because i think most people have no idea how speech impediments work. What exacerbates them, and what calms them down.
Plus, like anything else, like an injured limb, it can become more symptomatic with age.
The fact that people mistake verbal fluency for intellectual capacity makes me so damn angry.

2024-07-05 05:21:27

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Is it possible he's slowed down mentally some and they're hiding it? Yup. Sure. God knows they managed to hide Reagan's descent into dementia well, and the country didn't collapse.
But there's a significant difference between a stutter that gets more pronounced with age - hesitation, restatement - and the kind of word-mush that Trump falls into quite frequently. #Biden #Trump

2024-07-05 05:15:11

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Being able to read fluidly from a teleprompter is actually something people in cognitive decline find very hard to do. They tend to lose the thread of what they're reading.
Just look at Trump's problems with teleprompters. #Biden #Trump

2024-07-05 05:13:06

Having spent 5 years nursing a mother in cognitive decline, I do not see the tell-tale signs in Biden.
I see a man who is in his 80s. A man who was never verbally fluid and did not suddenly become more fluid now.
But I would really like to push against the accepted line that speed of comeback is any sort of asset in a leader.
We think the snappy, scathing comeback is a sign of intelligence and competence. It's not. It never has been. It's just been represented as such on TV. #Biden

2024-07-03 17:34:15

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I am at a place where I really don't know whether it's better to stick with Biden or find someone so bland as to be acceptable to people who hold completely different values to you.
I don't know. I don't even know if it matters. Does it even really matter? This illusion of choice... let us see it for what it is.
If Biden gets in, it doesn't actually matter if he's gaga. Kamala is competent.
If it's someone else... phfft. It wasn't someone you were ever going to love.
Just not Trump.

2024-07-03 17:27:06

And that may feel to you like no choice.
But it absolutely is choice. Because one offers just the slimmest possibility of space to fight for something better without bloodshed.
And I get that this non-choice you feel you're being forced into stinks. It may feel like defeat.
But there are gradients of defeat. One demands you have to wait and fight longer for the world you want. The other may very well ensure you never get that chance.
5/

2024-07-01 21:14:06

Now, you may pause to ask yourself why SCOTUS is not concerned that the President currently in office would not take immediate advantage of the immunity they have just provided the presidency.
It's because EVEN BIDEN'S most fervent enemies believe him too principled to use that immunity they just granted him.
And I'm sorry - I don't give a shit how old he is - that is exactly the reason you should vote for him. #Biden #SCOTUS

2024-06-25 08:49:46

Sunlight with precision
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2024-06-07 22:47:10

Americans voting for Trump again is like “A half-eaten man swiping right on a crocodile”
Via The News Quiz BBC

2024-06-04 09:49:20

It is a sign of just how universally it is acknowledged that Brexit was a disastrous mistake for the UK... that the Tories aren't mentioning it.
I do hope - post-election jitters - Labour grows a fucking spine and begins negotiations on some closer relationship with Europe. #UK #Elections

2024-05-31 07:47:36

Just a note for the press:
You can stop saying ‘allegedly’ now in reference to Donald Trump.
12 jurors have determined the accusations are proven @npub1qlv…k3kp

2024-05-04 08:55:04

Dora doesn’t give a fuck for gravity or dignity #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon
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