I will be unavailable for a while. It’s actually not to do with the despair and feelings of futility that I was feeling yesterday & which may or may not persist but a personal situation that has arisen this morning. I need to take care of my family, but will be back!

I’ll probably regroup but right now, I kind of feel like I might be done. It’s just coming from everywhere now & it just feels so futile to keep swimming against all these tides & currents.

I don’t think discussion is possible if you begin with the premise that I deep down hold the same views as you but am in self-protective denial about it because it would damage my sense of myself as a good person. This is the thesis of Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility, btw. https://twitter.com/lokitekone/status/1471607712098226176

I just have different political views to you, Charlie. It is possible to genuinely disagree with your political views without it being some kind of phobia or coping mechanism on my part. I’ll assume you also genuinely disagree with me having given the matter thought. 1/2 https://twitter.com/Charlise_Abode/status/1471517686706360321

Well, quite. https://twitter.com/Avaloncalibur/status/1471553693346529280

I’m going to go for a bit.

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But that isn’t what socialism means. Socialism is a system in which society owns the means of production. It’s not a wish to tackle inequality & injustice & defend the powerless against the powerful which does not require believing a socialist system will best accomplish that. https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1471452146726019075

Looks like I will not be going to France at the beginning of January. https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1471401496403140610

Because it became an abbreviation in the late medieval period when paper was really expensive and it stuck. https://twitter.com/nicolebarbaro/status/1471328227197022208