#Norms

So, a recent discussion on Twitter has reminded me that the military is a subculture, and that means having quite a few -isms that aren't immediately clear to folks who
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It unfortunate that George Washington's Farewell Address no longer garners the attention it once did.... It used to be required reading in most public school civics courses. His (and Hamilton's)
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ok I feel like I’ve seen a recurring western take of “danmei is so romantic even when censorship makes kissing and sex impossible on screen” and the assumption seems to
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Rant/2centzif ur a moot, and have been seeing my tweets lately you can VERY MUCH TELL that I've been dodging this issues with k, s, & n. And I have
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So it seems to me that the whole debate over “cancel culture” is hiding a broad point of consensus between many of the people arguing over it, which is that
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How many lives the 4 lockdowns saved in India? According to data released by Niti Aayog on Friday, the first two phases (March 25-April 14 & April 15-May 3) of
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Man, I just listened to @ezraklein interview @Yascha_Mounk on his podcast. For a political scientist who writes a ton about American politics, Mounk *really* needs to reread his E.E. Schattschneider.
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TikTok follows the same pattern of political censorship as western social media companies, despite being owned by the Chinese.Here's why [1/5]https://twitter.com/NickJFuentes/status/1253424688560128001 It's true that Chinese censors don't
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ive had this thought in the back of my mind all dayall of these corporate voting initiatives are just damage control: they saw what happened over the summer with the
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The oft-repeated idea that conversion therapy doesn't work is predicated on the idea conversion therapy aims at truly turning people cis, straight, and gender conforming. Quite the contrary, I think
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I have spoken already about affordances of the mind, but there is still much ground to explore. “Minimally counterintuitive” is another hook that ideas use to stick in our thoughts.
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Given some feedback on my Tweets, I think I need to clarify a few points here.First, I'm not just some wacky paranoid lib that thinks the GOP is setting up
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Here’s McConnell advancing one of the most pernicious myths about the filibuster: that it promotes moderation. There’s no real evidence this is true. OTOH the filibuster singlehandedly blocked civil rights
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The number of threads I’ve read today on domestic abuse here on this app, is giving me shivers. What have we become as a society? The more we talk about
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: agency is an always compromised state of freedom in the world that actually goddamn exists. Most of our lives revolve around the situations in which we surrender degrees of
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#SushantSinghRajputDeathCase : Bombay HC is considering two PILs seeking regulation of "media trial" and "malicious campaign against @MumbaiPolice" by some media while reporting the case.One PIL has been filed by
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