#Politics

I can’t be more blunt about this: Mr. President, Members of Congress, should you fail to provide the funds America needs for its elections, you will be derelict in your
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Warren Montag includes a critique of mine and @SteveMaher18's Jacobin piece in this interview. Since he raises important points, this is worth clarifying and responding to in some detail.https://www.leftvoice.org/the-far-right-has-never
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Proof that demythologization can be weaponized by any worldly regime with any politics. This is an excerpt from a debate between prominent Jodo Shinshu (Pure Land) priests and scholars in
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Smart, capable, experienced people are NOT running for public office in the US. If you’re watching the madness of our elections from the outside and wonder how we got the
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this seems like an ... imaginative thesis.https://twitter.com/AntonJaegermm/status/1359987183298482192 specifically, it seems like massively back-projecting the politics of today into an entire alien geopolitical and ideological climate. Wh
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Anyone else bored of the class-first "leftists" hinging so much of their vision for the world around just copying what europe's doing?Because I know I am lolhttps://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1355559895869874186 I'm sur
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THREAD: Spent much of spring/summer working with @Lorian_H to address health system/policy issues arising from Alberta government actions. Collating that work here to give Albertans one stop access to a
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I wanted to share a series I've been working on. Research to shed light on this moment. Hang on to your hats, here comes a thread. A live chat from
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1/ Was Nazism a leftist movement? Is fascism more generally a leftist ideology? Right-wing Americans often argue in the affirmative. I've already explained why I disagree. But since this claim
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If Boris Johnson had deciding a question was pejorative and online supporters then flocked a lobby journalist who had asked the right questions at the right time, then there would
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It's hardly the most egregious thing in writing, but reporters using "we" to describe the actions of the US government is always weird. anyway I've just read the worst essay
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#FilmTwitterIncredibles 2 is trending and I want to clarify what makes it feel ... off, at least to me. This thread is my take.The first noticeable issue is what I'm
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Just finished reading this book "Pakistan or Partition of India" by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. Very interesting comments on various aspects of pre independent India. I have listed some from
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“If you don’t vote in this election it’s because you’re a selfish, privileged elite who can’t understand the needs of the oppressed.”This is a bald-faced lie fabricated (ironically) by political
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16 men: a team of 11 players, 5 managers. 3 Lords, one Sir, and 12 men who, combined, have had major govt. or Tory jobs. In total, they’ve donated at
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1. The #KerryBabies. What happened to the Gardai who took Joanne Hayes' false confession? 2. Superintendent John Courtney was promoted to Chief Superintendent (after a period of desk duty). Courtney
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