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“Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s ‘fans’ have turned on her. Experts aren’t surprised.”

I found this article tremendously enlightening …

… as to many things beside its ostensible subject.  The same principles as apply to Gypsy Rose Blanchard, apply as well to Donald Trump, Trumpers, Trumpism, Fake news, Virality, Conspiracy theories and Conspiracy theorists.  I hade never considered the role of neurotransmitters before.

A must-read.

Copied from here: https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2024/02/01/gypsy-rose-blanchard-husband-mom-tiktok-viral/72424786007/

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Resource: HTML for fancy symbols

As a public service, I’m publishing what I found out about certain fancy symbols.

Helpful web pages:

On a web page, one must use UTF-8 encoding, or the symbols won’t appear.

The font used in my Word source document was Segoe UI Symbol.

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30% of Americans are bigots

Acceptance, or judgment?

Biden slammed for Christmas ‘unity’ speech after year of political attacks: ‘Spare us, you old grinch’ | Fox News

There is a segment of the population who won’t accede to any gesture of reconciliation.  Though I myself didn’t approve of Joe Biden’s divisive remarks about MAGA people in September ’22, the reactions quoted in the article, to Biden’s Christmas ’22 message, are telling.  On the one hand, most of the people quoted are actually outside the conservative mainstream.  On the other hand, they’re there, which is the subject of this post.  The quote from Kevin McCarthy’s spokesperson is particularly troubling; I will not examine whether these folks correctly say Biden said what they say he said. Continue reading 30% of Americans are bigots