#Contrarian

Decades of disinformation by the Right-Wing Echo Chamber has conditioned half the country to reflexively disbelieve anything that contradicts the echo chamber narrative, or politically threatens (holds accountable) an incompetent,
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First, they will tell you that Conservatives win when they run as Conservatives. Not really. They win when voters are exhausted by years and years of incumbent Lib governments and
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This crazy story about a university claiming that posters in a window “break the law” is a good example of how chaotic and inconsistent law-making can lead to a denial
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“It’s just a horse, a dumb, unfeeling creature, unaware of pain, unaware even of its own existence... When you whip a horse it doesn’t think “This is so painful &
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So stuff is going on but what I wanted to talk about was how people are reacting to what is going on, because I have a very broad spectrum of
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I’ve been warning people for more than a year not to trust CV Vitolo-Haddad because so much of how they presented themselves was hypocritical and deeply conflicting, but I’m just
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1/ Shopify yesterday announced going permanently remote, for most if not all employees. Twitter has made similar claims. Google, Apple, FB also remote for 2020. I’m still struggling to understand
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THREAD:I literally just realized something. Either by design or default, the #onpoli government recently conducted a large-scale test of the core thesis of the "Great Barrington Declaration".Spoiler alert: it didn't
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Congrats, @KyleKulinski! You officially joined the #TrumpTrain! This is the bullshit @SuckOpinion has been warning in his videos about, and yet, people like him are ignored!@daviddoel, @HumanistReport, @AnaKasparian, @EmmaVigeland, @NomikiK
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"I'm 16 and Marxist-Leninist!"No, Sarah, you're a teenager from an upper-middle-class household who's trying to get some social clout online because you're bored and rebellious. Stop screwing around and do
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This story by @yabutaleb7 and @jdawsey1 should get the Pultizer Prize. It charts out a terrifying future for us with @SWAtlasHoover at the side of @realDonaldTrump ready to just let
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23 books every entrepreneur should read… Raising The Bar“At Clif Bar I try to model the value of knowing nothing…..of asking questions, avoiding absolutes, being humble, and seeking the wisdom
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Because this is a good use of time on Saturday night, I want to just pull out this 2016 post-mortem from the pollsters' professional org (full disclosure, I'm a member),
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Contrarian View ( putting on the hat of a defence counsel) -Presume you are a well connected businessman (history of eating up Khan chacha brand from the original owners aside)When
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@RichardAEpstein @HooverInst got caught editing his past predictions again. It's happening so fast, I can't keep my piece updated, so here's a thread on how to deal with this kind
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My new boyfriend’s friends found my Twitter the other day and decided to do a deep dive, taking screenshots of all my tweets that prove, according to them, that I’m
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