#Political

Every now and then I think back on the fact that the Wesleyan Methodist church that I grew up in was founded on the grounds of anti-slavery in the 19th
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questions to answer if you’re bored; a thread don’t let me flop to start, what’s your name, age and pronouns? (if you’re comfortable) what language(s) do you speak? who do
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Just read BPS report 'Understanding depression'. Here is my first reaction to it with combined depression researcher, clinician, and person with lived experience hats on. I like highlighting of social/environmental
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Conservatives endlessly whine about how traditional values are being eroded and, yet, they also get a hard on about technology, business growth, and economic growth. Accelerating change in the economy,
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On Monarchy, a thread;Monarchy- one of the most lambasted and caricatured forms of government. Ask a liberal or your run-of-the-mill socialist or even an anarchist, they will say that the
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“Prisons are the logical outcome of the country’s foundation on the genocide of Native Americans, the enslavement of Africans, & the “manifest destiny” of imperial settlerism — from sea to
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When someone sitting in DC tries to portray the Karabakh conflict as some grand Russian-Iranian stratagem, arguing that it's important for US to align with two dictators to counter them,
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The Out of Shadows doc has truth to it (rich pedophiles in power cities LA/DC etc) but it veers of into paranoid territory quite often and suggests Jesus is the
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As someone who for past 5+ yrs has exhaustingly documented lawfare (laws/lawsuits) that target criticism/activism challenging Israeli policies - largely based on claims it is all ipso facto antisemitic -
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this is going to be the last thing i say about this karlie mess because i am so over swiffers acting like taylor's friends are footsoldiers and not actual people.
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Here’s a quick little 101 primer about Black Germans during the Holocaust, and the experiences of Black people in Nazi-controlled areas.(CW for Nazi violence, anti-Blackness, one image of people in
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There are no "religious studies" departments in major Indian universities. Indian "social science" academia has never really studied the category of religion. As a result, they simply regurgitate templates of
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Today I'm thinking of Yao Pan Ma, an Asian man in his 60's who was beaten into a coma while collecting cans to make ends meet.I think about the marginalization
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I wish we had a political culture in which, when a new leader of the opposition was chosen in the middle of the biggest crisis in generations, one of the
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non-uk moots answer these (qt and answer): what's this? and what's this? what are these brands of? what's this? who's this? what's this and where are they found? what tv
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This but for realhttps://twitter.com/rottenindenmark/status/1263974550955413505 Me in the middle of season 3 waiting for it to "get good:" Me looking at the vast majority of the creators, writers, and voice cast:
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