#Contempt

Robin Alperstein

RAlperstein

Thread: Portland isn't the canary in the coalmine -- it's the explosion. If we do not mount a massive national pushback we will be in full-blown fascism from which there

The Leave Alliance

LeaveHQ

1. The #ForeignAid debate follows a familiar pattern. Cherrypicked and distorted examples of "waste", years out of date, to paint a picture of incompetent civil servants flinging cash at dictators

Digital Mbizi

leedzenga

Seeing all these new chicken joints open, can't help but think. What do they think they will achieve it they continue acting like they were formulated off a discarded concept

Paul Regan

sherbetsaucers

The BBC replaced @maitlis in tonight episode of @BBCNewsnight because of a ‘breach of impartiality rules’ during Monday’s opening monologue. Is this true, or are the BBC politics team a

InSearchOfSense

ganesan312

My blog 'The transformation of India' in twitter format.Blog post link:https://wp.me/p8Fpl7-8u It is not a pleasant job to write about the negative forces and characters that usurped power with the

Dr. Jane Clare Jones

janeclarejones

This constant talk of women 'playing the victim' and 'weaponising trauma' is beginning to create a hard, dense shard of rage that I'm worried might get stuck in my heart

T Roberts

TRobertsNI

1/ I had enough of Twitter and deactivated my account. But the recent upsurge in violence in Northern Ireland and the subsequent media coverage and interpretation of it, needs some

Jessica Isabel Robeson

JessRobeson

Today is St George’s Day, the day when the English celebrate their Patron Saint.It’s also a day when woke Lefties make enormous intellectual fools of themselves as they lay bare

Problematic Thinker

Texaggie79

I have been giving this concept a lot of thought this past few months and now I'm going to write a novel on Twitter. My condolences if anyone actually decides

Aaron Sibarium

aaronsibarium

I think @DouthatNYT is largely right here. But his main caveat—“Who are you going to believe, my stats or your lying eyes?”—seems a bit understated. Because, unlike the countries Ross

Michael Harriot

michaelharriot

The problem is that many white people believe that being a racist is an all-encompassing trait that stains everything else a person does. They believe it is an evil feeling

Suzanne Sataline

ssataline

Before every official in China and #hongkong goes ape &%$# and justifies their crackdown by citing grievous #police abuse in #Minneapolis, know that US citizens and other govt branches have

Toby Young

toadmeister

1/ Thought I'd do a thread about reasons to be cheerful about the Cultural Revolution. All of these are variations on the same theme: the Red Guards have seized cultural

Ryan Shead

RyanShead

That you hear him unable to talk to foreign dignitaries without insulting their countries and demanding that they praise his electoral win, you said, "That's the way I want my

Will Mannon

will_mannon

// BOOK NOTES //Top quotes from @SPressfield's excellent "The War of Art". The internal force that discourages creative output = Resistance. "It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard

THE BODHISATTVA BEAST

TheBodhisattva4

Comparative Analysis: Nietzsche’s “Anti-Christ” vs Tao FlowWho was Nietzsche? Many “millennial” guys seem to “identify” with him just because they have “dark thoughts.” Friedrich W. Nietzsche was a prolific philosopher,