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I'm saying no disabled person is oppressed specifically because they are or are seen as smart.
This..... this has been bothering me for a while actually. I say this as a disabled smart kid (though not gifted): I am so tired of disabled smart kid tears.
— TheDisabilityEnthusiast (@twitchyspoonie) January 13, 2021
Y'all are not oppressed because society thought you were smart. https://t.co/ZiyreEP0bt
When I asked for accommodations in school and they wouldn't give them to me because I'm "smart" (which is a social construct btw), I wasn't actually being oppressed because I was smart. I was being oppressed because I was disabled.
If the school didn't see me as smart, I would've been put into special ed, which is often extremely abusive and really its own layer of oppression. I would've been able to advocate for myself even less and much of my autonomy would've been even more stripped away.
I've experienced only the tiniest slice of what people who aren't perceived as intelligent have experienced and even then there's a marked difference.
People often don't see me as intelligent because they mistake my Tourette's for an intellectual disability or severe mental health issue.
For many, I am immediately more humanized as soon as I can speak coherent sentences and they recognize me as smart.
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Road to Hemu village, which is a major tourist site in Chinese Altay, northern Xinjiang. Hemu is one of the Tuvan ethnic villages.
— Timppa Karjalainen (@TimppaKarjalai1) January 11, 2021
Damn pandemic. I'd be travelling twice a year to XJ if not the cursed virus. pic.twitter.com/GvNozILRnH
Tuvans in PRC live in Altay prefecture, northern Xinjiang. Considered part of Uriankhai tribes, in China classified as same group with Oirat Mongols, educated in Mongolian language, using Kazakh language too.

They speak native dialects in their homes/family. Basically a transborder identity group, divided between modern Russian Tuva, Mongolia and China. Main group lives in three Tuvan villages: Hemu (Kom), Ak Haba, Kanas.

Pretty typical for Xinjiang, Tuvans have own cuisine but mix it with other culinary traditions. E.g. Hui, Uyghur, Chinese. They used to be hunters but hunting and carrying guns prohibited now. Traditionally horse herders, less sheep herding.
Also reside in few other smaller villages and cities such as Burqin, Altay, Bethun. Self name varies: Monchak, Gok-Monchak, Altay Tuvasy, Tyva. Around 2500 ppl (maybe diff. now, I take data from research 2010-2017).

republicans are doing the right thing when its most politically convenient for them. a thing they were not willing to do when evidence of corruption and criminality was obvious, when thousands were dying and being harmed. their vote is welcomed but they get no praise.
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) January 12, 2021
people in general act out of self interest and in line with their community expectations. Republicans are horrible because they're collectively horrible, and their political incentives are all to be horrible. 2
individuals are accountable for their evil, obviously. but Republican incentives and communities actively encourage people to embrace their absolute cruelest and worst impulses, sometimes even over actual self preservation. 3
all of which is to say—the goal of our politics right now is to change those incentives, as much as we can.
the best way to do that is by defeating republicans over and over again until they have to stop being so horrible to win votes.4
but—Cheney and other republicans seeing their incentives shifting is good, and we should encourage that if we can. 5
Significant 3-Year Delta, Tomorrow!
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CHECKMATE inbound.
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BIG news week?
Future proves past
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NOTHING is a coincidence.
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PATIENCE
THERE IS NO ESCAPE.
THERE ARE NO DEALS.
TREASON AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS
FOREIGN AGENTS WI|THIN OUR GOVERNMENT.
THE PUPPET MASTERS HAVE BEEN REMOVED.
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Do you TRUST the US Military?
Do you TRUST the Chain of Command?
Have FAITH - WE ARE IN CONTROL.
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YOU WERE CHOSEN FOR A REASON.

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Jeremiah 29:11 [ESV]
11) For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare[a] and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
https://t.co/tYDodo846P

Some of my own comments in this thread
Today @scotgp have set out a proposal for the biggest rail investment programme Scotland has ever seen. Our fully-costed \xa322 billion plan would transform Scotland\u2019s railway, building a modern, zero-carbon network that is affordable and accessible to all.
— John Finnie MSP \U0001f397\U0001f1ea\U0001f1fa \U0001f3f4\U000e0067\U000e0062\U000e0073\U000e0063\U000e0074\U000e007f (@JohnFinnieHI) January 13, 2021
First, it's really good to see that the paper has either adopted the policies of or has come to the same conclusion as @Common_Weal's paper on rail nationalisation.
If we don't own all parts of the network, we can't strategically plan for
Excellent to see the plan include measures of how we get to the stations too. That has been too often omitted from previous attempts to do this kind of thing.
Also good to see some thought on intra-city travel as well as inter-city (again, something too often omitted) though I'll come back to that point.
And any plan that moves us away from cars being the default mode of travel is an improvement.