#Ideology

hmm it’s april aka autism acceptance month (obligatory fuck A$!) and social distancing ennui is hitting so i’m gonna unpack something that i’ve been seeing lately that makes me go
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The fact that a supposed "linguistic relativist" doesn't know the usage of quotes in the English language to justify and create disproportionate outrage towards a black man on twitter should
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1/OK, so I said I would do a thread on this and here it is. This is a wider thread, with charts (because I love visuals) and supporting articles about
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The trap of a piece like this one is that it kind of ends up identifying Modi with India now. Also the second trap is one I have written about
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The people protesting closures are hacking the journalistic news value of covering what is novel or contrary over what is normalized/accepted. The effect is amplifying a view the vast majority
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The Romans were not afraid of many things, but the magic of the Celts was enough to terrify them. The best, biggest, most organized army in the world at that
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The extravagant signing-event of US/Taliban in Doha was brilliant PR. The War on Terror in Afghanistan seemed almost over. The Taliban are now 'friends'. Now, lets look at the province
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the only time homophobia is used as a "plot device" in MDZS is to illustrate that the society is inherently homophobic, to the point of socially isolating someone, but mxy's
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1/ thread: The #Lebanese Political Class is Killing Our Parents, Again Today’s political leaders in Lebanon are mostly either civil war warlords/criminals or their (mostly male) relatives & lackeys. Between
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1/ Conspiracy Theories and the Far RightIts worth considering some of the driving factors behind these conspiracy theory protests. Anti masks rhetoric can be a gateway drug to the far
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PART 1:a thread providing context (as objectively as possible) for everything in "various comments techno has made that need to be seen and addressed" by @/crimeboysbias because twitter has a
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Okay. With this Amy Coney Barrett farce, we need to examine how the GOP and evangelical Right merged to protect white supremacy and aristocratic control, resulting in Donald Trump and
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In 1972, the Club of Rome published "Limits to Growth," which used pretty straightforward modeling to predict that the world's productive capacity would be exhausted soon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth1/ B
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That Uplifting Tweet You Just Shared? A Russian Troll Sent It https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/russia-troll-2020-election-interference-twitter-916482/ via @RollingStone "Russians know that disgust is a more powerful tool t
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Oh we're doing the 'driverless trains' thing too are we? Sorry, but now you're on @lonrec home territory. Here we go. /1https://twitter.com/SolWpolski/status/1003201639849910273 So the first thing you should always do
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A Call to Action, Specifically for the Buddhists of the World.A short thread I decided to write this because of one reason, basically.Buddhists have the calculated highest median age, the
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