Rutger Bregman is the Dutch historian who became a global sensation after an appearance at this year’s Davos summit, where he accused attending billionaires of ignoring taxation. Now he has created another viral moment in an extremely uncomfortable interview with Fox News’s Tucker Carlson.
Bregman so riled Carson with his accusations of hypocrisy, critiques of Fox’s conservative agenda, and attacks on Donald Trump that the TV host called him a “moron” and angrily told him: “Go fuck yourself.”
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Lot more people around the world are going to watch this now than if it actually aired. Speaking truth to power is the best viral content!
Brilliant
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He kisses—how do I explain it? Like someone in love. Like he has nothing to lose. Like someone who has just learned a foreign language and can only use the present tense and only the second person. Only now, only you.
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...in new york, concrete jungle where dreams are made of, there's nothing you can't do...
...except get married, if you're gay.
if the past has shown us anything (see: the civil rights act of 1964), it's that the rights of any minority group, whether it be a minority defined on the basis of ethnicity, sexual orientation, or religion, shouldn't be up to a majority vote.
time to speak up; hence, the blog reset. i hereby declare a preemptive new year's decade's resolution to regularly post something on tumblr (or whatever blogging tool comes out in the next ten years). i can't be quiet anymore!
if anything, it'll be good practice for the writing section of the MCAT