#Debate

Thread: In @Trent_Horn's book "Can a Catholic Be a Socialist?", he urges the logic (defending Capitalism's abuses) that tolerating sweatshops is acceptable because it prevents what would be worse alternatives
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If 20,000 people (or more) show up to the beach on July 4th, what the heck do the authorities expect can be done about it? The power of govt. only
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Reagan Republicans destroyed Unions because Black people started joining them. Reagan Republicans destroyed American industrial industries because Black Americans found jobs in factories after WWII Reagan Republicans gutted social safety
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THREAD: When I was 8, if my family saw a movie, ate dinner & got ice cream, no one on earth could get a message to us for hours. If
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Dear Owen - I was appalled to hear that you had been attacked. Now that you are hopefully feeling a little better I wanted to drop you a line. @OwenJones84
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Here we go Josh St. Patrick. Ghost St. Patrick https://twitter.com/Joshibirogba/status/1285890533781467136 This is not even up for debate , I'll probably be in
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Ok, so, first let me clarify a few things.When I say "stand-in bigotry," I mean characters act in some way that resembles bigotry in the real world, but it's not
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So @CillizzaCNN has an article claiming to highlight "The 28 most outrageous lines from Donald Trump's Mount Rushmore speech"I don't know if he had any say in that headline, but
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THREAD> 1/ I decided to spend some time running the numbers using a mix of several known as well as some hypothetical fundamental inputs for Bitcoin to come up with
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Spot on response to Walzer’s idiocy from @OlufemiOTaiwo and @lastpositivist:“But why was Walzer spitballing about what ‘racial capitalism’ means in the first place? He could have just asked.”https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_
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Great thread from @GeorgeSelgin on the 13(3) imbroglio.https://twitter.com/georgeselgin/status/1340031364406624260 This 13(3) thread from @BharatRamamurti is also good:https://twitter.com/bharatramamurti/status/1340382408328294402 Senator T
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Good @TheEconomist rehashing of debate on incoming #Biden admin's #JCPOA policy b/w those calling for "swift re-entry" versus "smart pressure" (using #Trump "maximum pressure" leverage).Some of its assumpti
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Quick thread on the Governor General's annuity and benefits. First, kudos to @btaplatt for his reporting on the amount that former GG's get for their professional expenses in retirement. The
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Anyone confused about why women, & sensible men, are raging about rape & sex on Twitter today (& for some time to come)? Well, there is a new Bill going
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I'm glad that the 1921 Tulsa pogrom is gaining higher prominence in the popular American memory (there's probably a better phrase for that but I either don't know it or
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#1st rule of class war: Divide them. divide them all - make them fight over color, over gender, over sex, over titles, over ethnicity. As long as the masses fight
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