#Rhetoric

Alexandra Erin

AlexandraErin

Last night I blocked Elizabeth Bear and Scott Lynch, who both had followed me for some time after she did the equivalent of detonating a tactical nuke as a flash

Maxim A. Suchkov

m_suchkov

#Putin gave an interview yesterday where he spoke at length about #America's #DemocraticParty, his vision for working w/ @JoeBiden, if the latter is elected #POTUS.Here's a short THREAD: 1."We hear

Sam Koppelman

SammyKoppelman

I hate threads, but this feels important:I want to tell you about how structural racism and segregation are being perpetuated in real time on the Upper West Side, one of

GET A GRIP

docrussjackson

Britain was a much more equal society before Thatcher than it has been at any time since.In this short THREAD, I just want to try and quickly take stock of

Matthew Pennycook

mtpennycook

Energy efficiency cannot compete in the excitement stakes with experimental green technologies or smart infrastructure but if Ministers are serious about a #GreenRecovery and achieving #NetZero it needs to be

Josh McCluskey

MccluskeyJosh

Two Mass Shooters are Out in Wauwatosa and Kenosha, WisconsinA thread https://www.joshmccluskey.com/two-mass-shooters-are-out-in-wauwatosa-and-kenosha-wisconsin/ The tragic news of a mass shooting in the Mayfair Mall in Wauwatosa, WI outsi

vakibs

vakibs

I periodically see arguments about how Rāvana, Mahābali or some other Asura in Purānic stories is a Brahmin. The arguments are often given as counter to colonial/missionary propaganda of racist

Yarimar Bonilla 👩🏾‍💻

yarimarbonilla

Folks upset about how Trump deploys us/them language to refer to Puerto Rico would do well to remember that this is encoded in US law. Puerto Rico *belongs to but

E-go

EgoDriv

How to win an argument without having solid reasoning and proofA thread that should be illegal: Disclaimer: The following is not to be used to convince your interlocutor but rather

Dr Dominic Pimenta

DrDomPimenta

Wow this is crazy ignorant from @richardm56 Let’s take it apart. /threadhttps://www.express.co.uk/comment/columnists/richard-and-judy/1323175/coronavirus-lockdown-figures-covid-19-death-toll So in the opening sentence @richardm56 finds a

Historic.ly

historic_ly

People who condemn "tankies", don't realize something. We have no personal interest in any other country. We just have an extreme mistrust of western media that causes us to research

בנימן | Benjamin

yehudi_eyif

Netanyahu is terrible in lots of ways, and absolutely deserves criticism and resistance, but this is some antisemitic BS. A brief history of Ashkenazi last names, and why the fact

Will Stancil

whstancil

As I have suggested many times, the core belief motivating a lot of white peoples’ exhaustion with “race issues” is the idea that race is a parochial topic that affects

Anne Marie Quilligan

amquilli

When we see @FineGael engage in this type of rhetoric, we see a worried party with weak policies. This is a distraction mechanism to keep us from critiquing FG social

(Rach)et

racheldotbaker

Tw and a threadReminder that pedophiles could also be called rapists and abusers and don’t deserve to be coddled under the guise of them being “mentally ill” and weaponizing illness

Julian

onomatopoeiaz

okay. alright. let's examine some of the talking points I've seen 'pro-ship' people use in defense of drawing underage characters in explicit situations (i'll abbreviate as VCP, for virtual cp)