#Irony

The irony is that the NYT and its inability to deal with the realities of the Trump era has set back journalism -- and I'm certain student journalism -- for
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I am not a deeply political person. I read fantasy stories and spend all day thinking really hard about them. I am not the guy you want to come to
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It's my recollection that the first occasion where political correctness commandeered a completely benign and innocuous term was when they demanded that "Merry Christmas" be substituted for "Happy Holidays." It's
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Values thread: I like to do a values clarification exercise (ala Russ Harris) every 6 months-ish or so (when I remember or have time...notice the irony ). Not because my
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The leader of the opposition is supporting the rule of law, you haven’t been arrested & Starmer hasn’t called for you to be.It’s an investigation of a possible breach of
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#BlackLivesMatter The ongoing demonstrations made me think of this poem, written by Langston Hughes. (From my copy of The Black Poets, an anthology by Dudley Randall) Last semester I took
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Oh, fuck, the irony. Life is like too real and too strange. Ok, where to begin? The beginning, I suppose…1/ In 2014, my step-dad (who basically raised me as his
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Why the handle @babytreeinacage? I wonder if anyone remembers where and why Harri discusses caging baby trees... Re-read the opening 5 pages of the novel if you’re stuck! And if
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So I was just messaging somebody over Instagram and we were arguing about the Cuban revolution and then it turned a discussion about the coup and Bolivia. First this person
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Last RT of @richard_littler – I often think about the media I consumed as a kid in the 1980s and 90s. It was a weird point when there were lots
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I've been talking to overseas Chinese students and following social media comments on their limbo status left by covid-19. Here's what's happened (thread): Since Feb, many overseas CHN students have
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On Fox & Friends, Trump insists he'll win Texas because Biden wants to "take away" God. It's not the first time he's used this line but it's pretty bonkers. (Also
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The problem is Finkelsteins comments are a self consistent application of his free speech purism. If he lived in a vacuum i wouldn’t care. But none of the people endorsing
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Today is rough. On a theoretical level. I've got work to do. That I don't. Also trying to figure out whether I should attempt to try to tweet as...well...yeah, I
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yeah this shit right here is a perfect example of why as a genderfluid person i very often feel unsafe around other communists, because way too many feel completely comfortable
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I watched The Social Dilemma last night (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11464826/). A thread: 1- I couldn’t help but asking myself the following question all along: do they see the irony in arguing the
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