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Udit Bhatia
drbhatia_ud
Thread on Avani Bansal’s piece in the Wire calling for epistocracy in India in the context of covid response & its failures. Some basic issues (more extended critique to follow
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Charlotte Evergarden (Married)🌹🥂
RedCharlotte_
guns don't prevent tyranny or protect freedom: https://thinkprogress.org/civilian-guns-do-not-prevent-tyranny-f831c6aa871c/revolutions are actually more likely in states with lower firearm ownership: https://www.theatlantic.com/internat
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Abhijit Iyer-Mitra
Iyervval
1n Pointing out that #TablighJamaat is disproportionately responsible for the spread of a disease is NOT Islamophobia. It comes from the methods of political negotiation that muslims developed in the
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Urmi Chanda 🇮🇳
URM1
One of the cool things about this field of study is an entirely new vocabulary that is coming my way. Starting a #thread of interesting new words I'm coming across
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Arash Kolahi
ArashKolahi
Alienation is among the most PERVASIVE sentiments in the US, felt across the ENTIRE political spectrum.Yet few can identify it, let alone envision a less alienating world - mainly because
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Sammuddra Gupta
Sammuddraa
Thread on Mighty "AHOMS" and Battle of Saraighat where Mughals lost to much smaller army of ahoms led by Lachit Borphukan. The Ahom kingdom was established in 1228 when Sukaphaa
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Ruchir Sharma
ruchirsharma_1
The vast majority of our Anglophone elite is so deracinated and disconnected from Indians outside their South Delhi, South Bombay, and Civil Lines gated communities, that they Orientalise and Other
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BAD NIGGER 🇨🇺🇰🇵🇵🇸🇻🇪🇮🇷
fake__monkey
"Anthropology has had a long love affair with the primitive and has preferred to set its tent down among the African bushmen, rather than the heartland of African civilizations. The
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nooran🍁
purpleremnants
Remembering the Indian Army's assault on the Golden Temple- the holiest shrine of its minuscule minority, by using unprecedented military power, executing civilians by tying their hands behind using their
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BenjaminThomasWhite
rain_later
Right.#Refugia I'd better get a couple of points out of the way at the outset.First, I'd like to be clear that whatever my reservations about this book, it is written
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Dr Charles Omole
DrCOmole
Review of the Social Medial BillThis Bill is 95% copied from the Singaporean Law passed this year; although the Singapore version has a lot more Guidance Notes which this Bill
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Theophilus Chilton
Theo_Chilton
1/ This is the sort of dumb, Muslim-tier "exegesis" that you get from a lot of these easy-believist, no repentance types that I was talking about earlier. Obviously this is
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The Prepaid Economy.
prepaid_africa
This fact is noted by the headlines in 2020 as well, and makes me think https://theconversation.com/fall-foliage-in-the-crosshairs-of-climate-change-32012 my favourite tree didn't turn as red as it usually does and didn't stay
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Noah Smith 🐇
Noahpinion
1/Well, here's a depressing thread that I've known that I was probably going to have to write since sometime in 2016 or so. I was waiting to see how things
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Irkutyanin
Irkutyanin1
This will be a thread on the largest reference works that historian Jonathan Smele ever wrote, the two volume historical dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars. This will only be
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penitent admirer
loudpenitent
...why are there already dead people in this opening going wholly uncommented upon?#TheLastOfUs2 This is going to be my reaction thread, by the way. I'll comment intermittently as thoughts
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