#Discourse

In the same way that it is said that the Trump presidency has politically polarized every corner of discourse in America, it is clear that these national protests — largely
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@mhenrylaw1@DissidentRabbi@e2pilot@jhirsch99@2PT0TURBOI'm always a bit skeptical when even my fellow Jews quote the Talmud to me in order to bolster any point. (we Jews often argue with each other on just
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I have started Hillbilly Elegy and there is a heavy-handed symbol 2 minutes in. i am traumatized, oh no fullbody flashbacks to my childhood SCREAMING, THIS LOOKS LIKE MY
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Thread: Looking at the "Overreach of China Hawks", one sees many flaws in their criticism of @AaronFriedberg's "An Answer to Aggression" in @ForeignAffairs.https://twitter.com/AaronFriedberg/status/132073002300390604
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1/ Apologies in advance for a monster thread but I recently had a check-in with my doctoral students and I thought I'd share the gist of that conversation in the
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Well, I've had the weekend to round up the responses to my column on cancel culture, so now I'll run through them. A lot of them will be familiar from
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Let's talk about America's long, weird history of conspiracy theories, how they're gateways to fascism and fueled by white supremacist paranoia, and why Trump's shrinking cult poses an incredible threat.
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The other day, on a Whatsapp group, a software engineer - a school friend - shared a meme that pretty much said that rising petrol prices are okay because at
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The Twitter discourse on Lena Waithe and #THEM leads me too believe that there are people who don't watch enough films & television. How else to explain why they think
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So, this is going to be a long thread of material that I won't comment on very specifically, but that I think might offer useful historical context for some of
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the more I read this recent People's Daily article from former deputy minister of foreign affairs Fu Ying 傅莹 the more I feel it is a suggestion (read: veiled criticism)
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Hello all! Today's the 2nd anniversary of one of the largest LGBTQ protests in Japanese history. The protests, part of a larger response to an article by a conservative politician
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(Thread on sugar report: 1/n) Sugar inquiry report has done a good job highlighting systematic problems in sugar industry. But it has not answered y sugar prices increased between Dec-18
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the #SuperBowl has reignited controversy around Native mascots. proponents of @NFL team names like the @Chiefs & @Redskins claim the terms are intended to honor, & are used respectfully.i found
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Was asked the deceptively simple question "what is co-design?" earlier and thought my "erm well it depends but here's what I think" answer might help others, or indeed might help
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The Gods of NeocityA giant thread by Mei and Sandy @renjundial119 Please hype us we spent way too much time on this. Taeyong- God of nature, Protector of animals and
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