In Venezuela last September, I found people hoping for change, but shocked and surprised by US policy, especially opaque oil deals with former regime cronies. The system looks, one economist told me, like “a coalition of two kleptocracies" www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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She is not Black, Oliver.

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I sincerely hope that you’re correct. But as someone who has lived this, people do not see mothers as harmful to their children. “A mother would never harm her daughter in this manner” and when confronted with evidence, they resort to minimization “he groomed the mother so she’s a victim”

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Hint: instead of QTing Tressie you can reply to her and have a conversation like a normal human being if you actually follow her, her threads aren't locked, they are just protected from random comments by drive-by randos. If you *are* that drive-by rando, maybe... don't?

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Well I had to make the difficult choice to cancel a work trip and eat the cost of the plane tickets today because I am still weak from this illness and my spouse assures me that physically destroying myself isn’t actually a good idea

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