#Discourse

Bucky Pop

BuckskinPop

1. Thanks to fine work by @JesseKellyDC, we're peaking behind the curtains of power and witnessing our craven political class' penchant for avoiding the costs associated with ambitious social crusades.It's

DangItsBatman #BlackLivesMatter #JusticeForGeorge

DangItsBatman

False accusations can be incredibly harmful and traumatizing. They can ruin lives. But you're not "allowed to talk about them" because real accusations means something worse happened. I was having

Phillip de Wet

phillipdewet

I've been worrying about this. The first, instinctive answer is yes, of course, check everything that can be checked before publication.But on consideration of the tradeoffs, I'm not sure that

Shibani Mahtani

ShibaniMahtani

Spoke to some of the leading experts on authoritarian regimes and the way they communicate, including @LMorgenbesser @MariaRepnikova "These outlandish claims, conspiracy theories, contradictory information and downright lies" -- i

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Aelkus

tbh this is a large part of why I am skeptical that science education actually will do much to combat conspiracismhttps://twitter.com/jimalkhalili/status/1247094937071620098 the particular mode here he is describing might really

The Duke of Evil || BLM

ProfofEvil

The most insufferable thing about film twitter is the constant "uhm no, my bias towards a movie implies that I have the superior and moral taste". Hating/disliking _____________ (fill it

darija freestyle

romiosini

what france cannot forgive its citizens of algerian descent - and by extension its citizens of maghrebi descent at large - is their refusal to remain subjugated, then and now.

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prettypinkpansy

god not to get into the art twitter discourse sauce but b/tch h/rtman is really out here sounding like a dril tweet in response to people calling him out for

Kevin Gosztola

kgosztola

Bernie Sanders' decision provides an opportunity for those in struggle to come to grips with reality of our politics.Democratic Party elites mobilized with great fervor to crush Sanders' campaign, and

Jonathan Portes

jdportes

This is absolutely correct. Equally, it devalues political discourse if we treat normal "spin", misdirection, selective use of facts (as practiced by all politicians) as equivalent to deliberate lies. Journalists

Docs4ProtectionfromGuns

Docs4GunControl

Re: RCMP union opposes Ottawa’s plan to ban certain semi-automatic rifles via @Nut_Graf.https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-rcmp-union-opposes-ottawas-plan-to-ban-certain-semi-automatic-rifles/A thread:Assault weapons are a pub

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ShortcakeShuake

Persona 3-5 Opinions!(please QRT instead of reply!) Opinion on Minato Arisato/Makoto Yuuki Opinion on Yukari Takeba Opinion on Mitsuru Kirijo Opinion on Junpei Iori Opinion on Akihiko Sanada Opinion on

Dr Asim Qureshi

AsimCP

A lot to be said about the condescension of “moaning”. The argument of Sh AHM rests on a presentation of Islamophobia as something that is experienced predominantly at the level

Mary Senier

MarySenier

Trigger Warning: Chronic Illness, Long Covid, Disability. Thread to follow: It's really upsetting to see individuals with ME on here responding to people having Long Covid in a "welcome to

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sciendere

so there's been discourse on the TL about 710 implying abuse survivors should forgive their abusers re: Daisy and Jiaying, and it's been bothering me a bit, and i finally

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

Five years and three months ago today, ISIS entered the museum in Mosul and began to destroy ancient statues with pickaxes and sledgehammers. They claimed they were destroying "false idols"