#Political

Part of why we are where we are is we bought into the bullshit that all opinions on every subject are worthy of respect and consideration /1 We entertained the
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So, with all these claims to the extreme marginalisation of the trans community floating around - and being used to dismiss women as uppity privileged bitches - I thought we'd
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Starting a thread titled, "I'm not a doctor, but I'm pretty sure that's not how that works." First up, man on phone explaining why he's a low risk for
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I've been venting everywhere, so why not here too.All these "haha mixed race ppl..." Whatever jokes are real funny until you have to argue with family members why you're so
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General musing in this thread: One public policy issue that seems to have major consequences, but not as much attention in discourse (though it would have been tried in various
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With everything that's happening right now I've been thinking a lot about my Gran and the three weeks she was in hospital in April 2016, before she passed away in
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In many ways, solidarity is required in order for good to triumph over evil. And one of the keys to fostering solidarity is empathy: the imaginative generosity that allows us
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An intellectual Turing test is when a person on the right tries to pass for a person on the left, or vice versa. We have long observed that most rightists
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My five cents in a thread https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/03/world/europe/navalny-poisoning-merkel-nord-stream.html?referringSource=articleShare @LaurentRuseckas @RugeBoris @v_madalina @agata_loskot @StevenErlanger @MarcoGiuli @BLSchmitt @k
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1/4: I was asked by the President of the United States to help formulate healthcare policy during the biggest healthcare crisis in a century. My extensive background in both medical
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1/ I feel that any textbook on "Cybersecurity 101" should start with stories like this. Politics is more integral to cybersecurity than other subjects.https://twitter.com/zackwhittaker/status/1265704383104405505 2/ Ideally, cybers
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1 I wanted Bernie to win. I voted for him in 2016 and in 2020. His 2016 campaign fundamentally changed my political views and general views on many things in
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I really wish the Jonas brothers would use their platform more. Yes I’m aware they did the same copy paste tweet 2 days ago. But a quite frankly that was
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1/ All these Leb politicians sitting with #Macron were lectured and humiliated. Although Macron shouldn't have this prerogative, they deserve it. They spend their time bickering when the country is
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Politics & the media are far too intertwined in this country it is ruinous. journalists & tv presenters becoming politicians, politicians becoming paid stooges for billionaire bigot proprietors, ending up
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I would rather self isolate for the rest of the year and the next one and the next one, than hand the entire contents of my phone over to this
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