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I Believe... [Valid Feelings/Invalid Response]

...that your feelings are always valid but your reaction may not be an appropriate response. Your anger is valid; your follow-up tantrum combined with destroying property is not. Your desire for attention is valid; your follow-up shit-tweeting to get it is not.

..that Matt Gaetz looks like an actor portraying a young Richard Nixon in a low-budget horror film with a make-up artist suffering from glaucoma.

...that if “whiteness” is less about race and more about systemic issues, perhaps you should come up with a less racialized term for it because you sound like a mirror-image of the bigots of the 1950’s South right now.

...that right now, with the NRA’s waning finances and influence, is the perfect time to enact some serious and long-lasting laws banning the unfettered ownership of killing equipment.

...that few things speak to the humanity and compassion of our most prolific Twitter users than the immediate trolling and disdain exhibited following the death of a prominent white man.