#POLITICAL

Racism cult, mask cult, transgender cult, climate cult, personality cults... we're devolving into a weird new form of government, the cultocracy. Only cult leaders have much control over governance, and
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A thought on the Bad Faith discourse this AM: one of the more troubling implications of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and (especially) Coriolanus is that bad faith is an inherent part
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#CapitolRiots As a history educator this week has been the toughest of my life. I work in a very conservative town, and in my private life am very much liberal.
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1/10 MUST READ: Powerful piece on how Islamic Republic of Iran uses hostage taking to further its goals. MUST READ by @xiyueWang9 who saw how this works from inside Evin
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Something to think about as we approach an election season. In reality, many Evangelical Christians are not "single-issue voters" (e.g. abortion). They are actually reductionist solution voters.In the example of
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WHITE PEOPLE:The literal definition of racism from Merriam Webster:"the systemic oppression of a racial group to the social, economic, and political advantage of another"https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/racism1. System
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So a thought on #CrossingGate for council officers. Unless you have a budget and authority to progress a resident request, refer the public to councillors. They are elected to make
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"There is a collective blame to be shared by those of us who have created the modern Republican Party that has so egregiously betrayed the principles it claimed to represent,"
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"No Politics" as a rule in chats groups, fandom spaces, etc is political because it implies politics is removal from everyday lifeThis inherntly makes it hard to get people on
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problem: people have fallen into seeing exclu/inclu as lists of things you reject or support, resulting in worse shitcoursesolution: we need to cohesively tie together what they call "inclusive" beliefs
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Re-creating my tweets here so as not to hijack the original thread. This guy's take is a disaster https://twitter.com/Viking_Sec/status/1356370869023612930 Ok, so his first mistake is in saying that "there is
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A friend sent a thread showing "evidence" of voter fraud due to some deviation from Benford's law in ward-level vote counts. Here's my response explaining why it's a pretty flawed
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the "great power competition" farce is over. the capitol was breached and an enemy flag was taken inside. if you care about natsec this should be your number one concern.
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I have been asking myself what might prevent another New Tone Tuesday, where POTUS reads some scripted lines in his hostage voice and the press reports a change. https://presswatchers.org/2020/07/save-lives-or-obsess-about-trumps-tone-polit
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lmaoooo, imagine how self-satisfied and smug the political scientist drawing these graphs must have felt. Archive these to show the next person who "trusts experts" in good faith. Classic moldbuggian
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[THREAD] Populism is a damnable thing. It's akin to a human in their personal life saying, "I'm pissed off. F*ck it. I'm going to go snort coke, or take off
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