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Fabiana Cecin 🏴 🌹
fabianacecin
Individuals are, ultimately, the generators of all wealth. Yes, society has structures, systems, that drive us, but it is from the collective action of individual spirits, living beings, that every
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Shreyansh Vinod Dhari
Thatcherite25
A couple of days ago one of my family members informed me that this #Covid_19 crisis is forcing multinational companies headquartered in China to rethink their business model and shift
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Patrick Deneen
PatrickDeneen
Liberalism holds that there can be no common good, only individual interests. What passes as "common" is merely aggregation - the markets, voting, etc. It is believed that only through
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Benjamin Park
BenjaminEPark
For my first #review thread, I'm going to highlight @HC_Richardson's new and sweeping volume, "How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul
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thebodejacket
there’s a new trend going around on leftist twitter (idk how many of u r on that) that is insistent on glorifying cuba while damning the united states and im
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Anand Giridharadas
AnandWrites
Here we go again. Some of the arsonists coming back to firefight.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/10/business/coronavirus-new-york-city-minority-workers.html We don't need these CEOs to start something new. We need many of them to stop d
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Teri Kanefield
Teri_Kanefield
Sen. Mike Lee comes right out and says that the GOP is opposed to democracy.By "democracy" @SenMikeLee means all people have a say in government. By "peace" he means order.
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5 min conversation
ehnottooxabi
So rewatching that Bruenig Ingraham segment from the other night something that caught my attention the 2nd time around was how Ingraham tried to frame the debate in her monologue
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Joy-Ann 😷Reid
JoyAnnReid
You went to Yale and then got rich as a venture capitalist and turned your childhood community’s pain into an additional fortune. Some might call that elite. And replacement theory
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Teri Kanefield
Teri_Kanefield
(Thread) Oligarchy v. DemocracyIn dealing with a pandemic, a democratic leader would base success on how many lives are saved.A would-be oligarch, on the other hand, bases success on whether
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Caitlin Johnstone ⏳
caitoz
Why Liberals Hate Leftists"Liberals hate leftists because leftists are a constant reminder that liberals are not the thing they pretend to be."https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/why-liberals-hate-leftists-4044f9207a88 Liberals hat
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Sam Parker 🇺🇲
SamParkerSenate
***Short thread on how to deal w/John Roberts's SCOTUS tyranny***1. Many know Marbury v. Madison (1803) established the doctrine of Judicial Review. Almost no non-lawyers know that the 2nd case
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Sam
SamKhan999
One imp aspect that people don’t understand that Hindu society is based on oligarchy & not socialist or welfare ideology like Islam & Sikhism. Hence every crisis or ideology or
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
I have a column up in today's @Slate's @FutureTenseNow: "The Dangers of Cynical Sci-Fi Disaster Stories."https://slate.com/technology/2020/10/cory-docotorow-sci-fi-intuition-pumps.html1/ It's an exploration of fiction
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⬇ Nathan Rudman ⬇
Morg0rth
Wondering what #defi is, who lends and who borrows i the crypto world, this tread is for you with a concrete example of a @TransferWise crypto equivalent. #defi means decentralized
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æva, apocalypse gender
aevavoom
Had a strange-feeling realization today, questioning my own views on racism in a new wayMy grampa fled Germany in WWI then fought the Nazi's for the US in WWII.A thread
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