#Rhetoric

Christmas Eve ain't what it used to be

bloonface

Oh I'm sure when you were calling Labour members, non-specifically, "deluded" "Marxist" "trots" and "cultists" you didn't *mean* a 70 year old canvasser with a walking stick, but unfortunately it's

Zoé

ztsamudzi

Nothing like a well-meaning person doing political crinkum crankum with the idea of “risk.”https://twitter.com/yamiche/status/1248027369409036288 I worked on a study about trans women of color + HIV and there was constant

Tayler Hansen

TaylerUSA

Yesterday in Denver a Conservative was executed by Matt Dolloff @DenverPolice claim he has no connections to ANTIFA, but that’s not what the evidence says.This is a thread EXPOSING the

Shahmir

shahmiruk

Many Conservative Party voters do not associate the defunding of the NHS with the crises it faces. They have individualised the problem because that is the rhetoric spread on their

Scribulatora

Scribulatora

Dear @AndrewScheer,I've always thought you were a decent man whose ideology was disagreeable to me but whose character was intact.I'm watching you literally running a campaign designed to tear apart

Seth Abramson

SethAbramson

(THREAD) This thread tries to answer the question many Americans are asking right now: are the members of Trump's inner circle, including medical experts on the Coronavirus Task Force, getting

Tom Scott

Tom___Scott

#ScumMedia - the hashtag being promoted by legions of far-right trolls, bots and apparently even some Tory MPs - is the contemporary equivalent of Lügenpresse - the term used by

Jon Collins

JonSCollins

Almost half a year after Minneapolis City Council members made headlines across the country for a vow to dismantle policing in the city as we know it, what has been

Laura E. Adkins

Laura_E_Adkins

The violent uptick in anti-Semitism in the US is hard to understand through a political paradigm because, for the most part, the data suggest it isn’t politically motivated — which

Dr Benjamin Janaway

drjanaway

Dont let anyone ever judge you for surviving pain, or carrying it. Pain is what makes you strong and empathetic. Pain allows you to understand the worry and weakness of

Zaid Jilani

ZaidJilani

The problem with Bernie Sanders's campaign wasn't that it was too combative or not combative enough, rather that it didn't do it competently. Used alienating rhetoric towards moderate Dems, but

R.J. Somer (81k 🥺)

RJsomer

Lukewarm take: but replacing ableist vocab with other words that will become ableist in the future because you use them as synonyms (linguistics 101) is a failure. Rather, you must

Safya Khan-Ruf

safyark

This is getting really dangerous - French Interior Minister called @ccif, which compiles data on anti-Muslim hate crimes, “an enemy of the republic,” & raised the alarm against “the enemy

Lara Adams-Miller

LaraAdamsMille1

“Shut up, terf” and “punch a terf” rhetoric is nearly indistinguishable from anti-suffrage rhetoric. When people deride “terfs,” they frequently describe or portray them as ugly and middle-aged, because they

and Smith must score (yes, I've had enough)

SmithScore

After 6 years as leader, 13 in power @NicolaSturgeon makes a grandstanding speech about what she will do in Govt, but forgets to mention that she needs the UK to

Social Justice Warlock

charllandsberg

CW: breadtube, nazis, the usual bullshitI dunno how much folks know about punk and punk culture and punk spaces, but do you know what punks did to Nazis when Nazis