#Thinkers

Victory from Defeat?An Idea.I've warned about difficulties Brexiters will face with their current stance if Trump fails to win the election.Their difficulties can be reslved, but only by rational strategic
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THREAD: The shocking true story behind @Education4Libs who has called the Parkland survivors crisis actors multiple times and is a leading proponent of the QAnon conspiracy theory. 8 months ago
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It seems the MAS has won in Bolivia. I would say the ticket of Arce/Choquehuanca is really interesting. There is room for hope but as always I trust more on
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Increasingly, I find that people no longer understand the most straightforward things: they read Marx as if he is speaking allegorically. E.g. as if exchange-value were not an observable phenomenon
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When you follow someone on Twitter:You choose who influences your thoughts.Here are people I'm testing out this month: Category: CRITICAL THINKING@jeremygiffon• The first of three of the most brilliant people
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For me, this shows some things..1. Growing in a "Christian home" can be the greatest obstacle and yet the biggest step to knowing God. It just depends on which side
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Recently decided to read Golwalkar/Savarkar's writings from cover to cover. Not having had the benefit of a Shakha education and with a nation-wide NRC looming, thought it'd be prudent to
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Did someone pay you to throw me this softball? Well, thank you for teeing me up this way. Much appreciated! In point of fact, there is actual scholarship on this
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Reading this thread from a progressive-atheist on race, I want to give an extended take. Its author thinks this is the height of rationality, yet he clearly demonstrates the existence
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ThreadThe biggest news out of NYT’s “bombshell” on Trump’s taxes is that it has flattened a conspiracy theory among Democrats & the media, popular in 2016-17, that Trump was hiding
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This is why WikiIslam is *not* a reliable source to use. Here again, we see the gullible & credulous approach to the historical sources, especially when it can be weaponized
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Last week, a big American newspaper asked if I wanted to weigh in on the Beirut Explosion.I lived in Beirut for the better part of 15 years. I wrote a
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The Sovereign Individual (1999) is a guide for navigating the current transition from Industrial to Information Age.Remarkably, it predicted the rise of 'digital gold'.“If our deductions are correct, you stand
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WHY I THINK HARRY STYLES IS A 7 ON THE ENNEAGRAM for those who don’t know, the enneagram is a personality typing system made up of 9 different types which
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23 Things You Were Never Taught in School// Thread // 1. Investing BasicsOne way to build wealth is by investing in the stock market. Some ways to invest include:- Invest
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Reading about thinkers like Olympe de Gouges makes me wonder whether someone committed to the moral intuitions prevalent today really needs to invoke a mysterious notion of 'moral progress' -
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