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Now the US is arresting sick people who get angry when denied treatment.

Men don’t get arrested for using threatening #language. But this woman did

Briana Boston had reportedly just had a medical claim denied when she said to the person on the phone: ‘Delay, deny, depose’

On Tuesday, Florida’s Lakeland #police department charged Briana Boston, a 42-year-old mother of three, with threats to conduct a mass shooting or act of #terrorism.

What did Boston do, exactly? She was rude to a customer service representative. #acab #ceo

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

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During the 17th and 18th centuries, they were part of the Republic of Letters, a network of literary and intellectual exchange often centered around salons.

By the late 19th century, the term broadened to include those writing intellectually about literature, such as essayists and critics, and was eventually replaced by “intellectual” in the 20th century.

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Floccinaucinihilipilification [FLOK-suh-NAH-sun-nee-HIL-uh-pil-uh-fi-KAY-shun]
(n.) The act or an instance of estimating something to be without value.
(v.) To estimate something or somebody as worthless or trivial.

Originally coined by some clever student(s) at Eton College