#Western

1/Woke teachers are ruining education.This elementary teacher, who doesn't know when America was founded, says she teaches her students about leftist protesting and activism but refuses to teach the actual
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Yesterday I was reading about the ideas of Girard. His first big idea is mimetic desire: when you look for the source of your desires you find that most of
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🅣🅗🅔 🅕🅐🅜🅘🅛🅨🅒🅤🅛🅣 Around June 1989, detective Lex de Man wrote a report recommending that Victoria Police begin a criminal investigation into The Family.https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/little-
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A friend asked me why so many conservatives reflexively back the police while fearing the state. Aren’t the police armed representatives of the state? I’m gonna work this into something
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I keep hearing reference to planting Victory gardens. I'm not a historian (check out @Ian_Mosby's amazing work) but it seems to me like something different is needed during this pandemic.
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Several companies have tests of varying quality, but Cellex makes a FDA-approved antibody test. The goal is to test for immunity due to prior exposure rather than an active infection.
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After almost seven years of knowing the truth, y'all have no idea how much it infuriates me to see western pundits – often Jewish – very occasionally have a little
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Some tweets about China's social credit system, how it isn't actually Black Mirror and how you should stop using facile pop cultural references to demonize countries you haven't bothered to
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I was to the latest Crosstalk & lots of #Hitler stuff was discussed. I'm certainly not a historian so I quickly did a search to what was available
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Watching Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure showed me how important music is to the series so here’s a thread showing some of its many music references from parts 1-5: Speedwagon is named
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Why identity and privilege matter: Yesterday in Sydney Morning Herald Lakita Bourke (2021) wrote:“Prime Minister Scott Morrison says identity politics and the moral corrosion caused by the misuse of social
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As faith in institutions collapses + popular rebellion grows, both Trump + Biden have attacked anarchists - likening them to terrorism + chaos. But what is anarchism, a movement nearly
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Perhaps no military general in the history of independent Bharat has ever captured the national imagination in the way #FieldMarshalSamManekshaw did.One of the chief architects of Bharats's 1971 victory against
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In @billmckibben's 2007 essay, he wrote that battling collapse might come down to “…hyperindividualism versus community. If we can build a society where a community farm, a community source of
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a hopefully short thread on Sino-American conflict and World War 3, cos I really fucking need sleep To make things clear, there are three main powers in the Indo-Pacific competing
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Dear @ADL, this is not a 'white nationalist' conspiracy theory, nor is it anti-Semitic. And the truth is: the west is under attack by its own governments and the global
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