#Rhetoric

Phil Syrpis

syrpis

There's a lot of debate on here today about how best to oppose populist leaders (say Trump and Johnson). They both pose grave dangers to democracy and the rule of

john milbank

johnmilbank3

This is completely superlative. It demonstrates just how wide of the mark is the idea we are entering a new age of the nation state. No: a new age of

Kevin Young 🇬🇧

KevinYoung64

1/There's a ramping up of the rhetoric against #WoodhouseColliery and @WCumbriaMining by the #environmental lobby.@BorisJohnson has been told that he faces humiliation if the #CoalMine goes ahead in #Whitehaven as

Flute Person

ComradeFlute

Modern rural culture can be pretty bigoted, and it's a shame. It should be common knowledge on the Left that old school country was working class af, and .that the

John Aerni-Flessner

LesothoJohn

So most folks on here know that I study #Lesotho but also live in the USA. I have a few random thoughts on how these two things intersect in the

Kirbmarc

kirbmarc

Woke is often just a veneer for milquetoast neoliberalism/neoconservatism. Which is fine, to a certain extent, because it's not the boogeyman that the right believes it to be. But it's

Mark Galeotti

MarkGaleotti

Parsing some of #Lukashenko's language yesterday and its reporting on the official #Belarus media - a little thread 1/ Let's start with the headline (apart from the irony of "not

Mark Galeotti

MarkGaleotti

#Putin Accuses West of Using #Navalny to 'Contain' #RussiaVVP: "Our opponents or our potential opponents... have always relied on — and used — ambitious, power-hungry people"A short thread on this

Rivers Solomon

cyborgyndroid

a lot of the advocacy surrounding adhd recently still frames many of its common attributes as intrinsic shortcomings rather than what they really are, which is simply personality traits that

Erik Loomis

ErikLoomis

This Day in Labor History: December 15, 1921. The Kansas National Guard arrived to break up women’s marches in support of a strike of coal miners in southeastern Kansas. Let's

Robert E Kelly

Robert_E_Kelly

My takeaways so far:A. Trumpism was not vigorously repudiated. Trump is gone, but his toxic ideology of racism, authoritarianism, conspiracy theories, endless grievance, and so on – call it ‘FoxNews-Breitbart-ism’

Socialist_Tipster

Eyecatcher_Pro

The lockdowns we have had to endure were only what capital was able and willing to sacrifice: the social and recreational aspects of life. Depriving people of visits from family

Papa John

Kegga76

I stole this from someone in another post....2011- tens of thousands of Democrats surged on the Wisconsin Capitol building in Madison and physically occupied it for more than two weeks?

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

AOC

One of the 1st votes I ever cast broke w/ my party over House rules that strangled transformative legislation for working people + climate. It was honestly terrifying.Now, CPC has

Mistress Emma Evans

MelanieMoore

So Donald Trump is a coward and lazy man who doesn't really stick his own neck out, or exert himself over much.I'm walking WITH you to the Capitol he screams,

jules rylan ✡︎

radiantbutch

i’ve taken almost a week off of this site after what happened to me, and i feel prepared to express some of the pain i’ve been in and the honest

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