#Politics

Barrister's Horse

BarristersHorse

US thread1. Mopping up minorities to provide a majority of votes will lead to instability:1. Placing minorities on a pedestal when a whole country is hurting will cause discord, or2.

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

After Black Death, ungovernable state and depopulation lasted almost 200y. It is not a given that the world is necessarily governable simply because we prefer it. Governance escape is possible

Alan Cross

AlanLCross

A few years ago, I was about to give a talk on Christianity & Politics. One of my main illustrations was of a Baptist pastor in the South in the

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SatansJacuzzi

pretty much every person ID'ed so far from the Capitol has been petty bourgeoisie real estate agent, pool cleaning company CEO, that insurance company's general counsel, the private jet lady

spencer sunshine

transform6789

Older people forget that even if younger people know a history, the context is often lost. So here's a story about Leninism & the US Left for late millennials &

Philip Cunliffe

thephilippics

Short thread on campus free speech follows, looping back to the publication of @BruceGilley3's (subsequently retracted) essay in @thirdworldq defending colonialism, in the aftermath of which the magnitude of the

Randy

egg_report

the reason kids like drugs is because it’s gatekept. It is illegal, and beyond the rituals of circumventing the law to engage with it, there are rituals within “drug culture”

Tim Walz

Tim_Walz

Thread - The last sitting President to visit my hometown of Mankato, Minnesota was George W. Bush in 2004. As a high school teacher and football coach, I brought two

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vegix

In 2020 at least 345,737 Americans died of COVID.This thread is meant to be a memorial honoring their memory.Because our government under the leadership of Emperor Covidicus can't be bothered

Roaring Rudy Havenstein

RudyHavenstein

August 2006: "FBI Shows Off Counterterrorism Database""The system, designed by Chiliad Inc. of Amherst, Mass..."Guess who co-founded Chiliad?Ghislaine Maxwell's sister.https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/

Q. Anthony (FKA Andray Domise)

andraydomise

If the most visible Black people in media can't be trusted to know their own history, how do you think they gained their position to begin with? If representation matters,

Kanekoa

KanekoaTheGreat

TEXAS LAWSUIT - MICHIGAN"Wayne County Statement of Votes Report lists 174,384 absentee ballots out of 566,694 absentee ballots tabulated (about 30.8%) as counted without a registration number for precincts in

D.

Disstillmyname

Inspired by @Shudraism to make this thread about my ongoing coffee conversations with an ex-colleague and friend. This guy is hardcore BJP-RSS, father was active member in RSS and this

Brooke Binkowski

brooklynmarie

This is the shit my team and I were trying to hold back or at least mitigate in time for the 2020 elections. We've been fighting this since 2017 at

David Bier

David_J_Bier

Long thread: Because I couldn’t find anything comprehensive, I’m just going to post everything I’ve seen in the news/Twitter about Trump’s activities related to the Jan 6th insurrection. I think

Jeff McFadden

homemadeguitars

I have some thoughts about this whole thing.I consider it to be a fact that there is no discussion whatsoever of electing a government to govern at election time.There is

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