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Antonio García Martínez
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Good thread, by a foreigner who rode the full American rollercoaster, assessing the unique advantages of American culture (that Americans, particularly the fashionable elite, too often forget).As someone who also
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For some masochistic reason, I'm on this SFUSD call about the Lowell high school lottery thing. Like every time I've dipped my toe in local politics, it's this heartbreaking spectacle
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This is such obvious revisionist bullshit. The NYT and the rest of the tech journo circle covered the hell out of Cambridge Analytica for YEARS after the election, lending credence
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Ok, Pull Requesters, I'm taking one for the team tonight and watching 'Social Dilemma'. I have first girded my loins, so to speak, with some Rioja and jamón. On to
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What happens when Anglophone ideologues create a new ethnic label that can't be pronounced in the language of the culture it purports to represent?https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/08/11/about-one-in-four-u-s-hispanics-have-hear
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If you'd told my grandparents in 1958 Havana that the most pro-capitalist, pro-US, highest-living-standard country in Latin America--the country they'd left Europe for--was soon to become a totalitarian Soviet proxy
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Watching French socialist baby mama get progressively (pun intended) more redpilled by every American leftist she meets possesses a subtle and ironic intellectual joy to it. The Bay Area Left
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Because those same cosmopolitans fetishize Europe--oh, the trains I took while on study abroad!--and fantasize about moving there (but almost never do).The reality? UK's GDP per capita is about that
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The mystery here is why Americans don't emigrate, almost ever. You meet few American emigrants (or 'expats' if they're white collar) abroad. It's like citizens of an immigrant country refuse
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“The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too.”This is ridiculous reasoning. Tyson has bought a
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'Only two types of media people pay for: business news and pornography. And the second isn't even true anymore.'https://digiday.com/media/as-a-paywall-alternative-vox-com-asks-for-reader-donations-to-fund-coronavirus-coverage/ Nobody pays
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'The most resilient metro region in California may be the San Francisco Bay Area, where six counties issued the nation’s first stay-at-home orders to a large population on March 16.'https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-california-has-avoided-a-co
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