#Rhetoric

Gee, I can't imagine why the vast majority of the country keeps telling Trump and MAGA to shut the hell up about reopening before it's time.https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1252719543790776320 People might eventually want
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are you aware of china's footbinding tradition? this is absolutely fascinating to me, my impression is that the average person doesn't know much about china, and I thought footbinding was
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alright i’ve been seeing a lot of discourse about the lesbian!lizzie headcanon i wasn’t gonna get involved but someone has to say something because it’s getting old DISCLAIMER: if u
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Apart from his conceit that the Tory party he joined was enlightened and competent, Matthew Parris is quite right about this. When it comes to solutions for "red wall" places,
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There is safety in asking the “big”, high-minded questions. It serves those with privilege to appear as if they are aligned to change, but requires nothing of them. #philanthropy #nonprofit
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Alaska's cases have undergone a huge uptick: from 0, to 14, to 27 in a day. Our governor encouraged a rapid reopening and is now pushing to eliminate our mandatory
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When you center lesbianhood around non attraction to men above even loving women to the point where you force binaries onto nonbinary people to determine who’s a man and who
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a lot of the advocacy surrounding adhd recently still frames many of its common attributes as intrinsic shortcomings rather than what they really are, which is simply personality traits that
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It’s striking how the panicked rhetoric about the Wuhan coronavirus mirrors the Iraq WMD debate in 2002/2003 and beyond. If you doubt the experts’ WMD claims, it’s because you love
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A little thread about having more than one home country during the COVID19 pandemic... (1/n) People always ask me which country is my 'home' and for a while it made
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Please observe the talented gaslighting conducted by NDP operatives. After making false accusations, followed by pushback with available facts, this NDP supporter is claiming they are being attacked.https://twitter.com/rebelheart529/status/
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What to say about this mess? An embarrassment and a loss for Canada, yes, but a bigger one, surely, for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who made the UNSC a target
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As @realDonaldTrump golfs this Memorial Day weekend while Americans continue to die due to his failed leadership, here’s a photo of a monument he placed along the Potomac at his
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After the recent American Mind piece on abandoning conservatism for counterrevolution, I did a little digging on conservative use of the term counterrevolution. (A thread) 1/ The piece in the
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Sometimes you have conversations that just stick with you. In 2006, I went to lunch with @EricFlint at the World Science Fiction Convention in Anaheim; we got to talking about
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Inspire OthersA thread https://theprinceumanahplace.wordpress.com/2021/05/06/inspire-others/ We may not be able to directly affect the lives of everyone positively, but we can always inspire others. Inspiring others usually have a chain rea
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