#Politics

The idea of homo hypocritus: the main reason we have huge brains is to hypocritically bend rules. http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/03/homo-hipocritus.html Anger, bragging, giving orders, and anything remotely resembling dominance among me
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Hey #PDX. Do you wonder about @TeressaLRaiford and the #writeincampaign? Why isn't she campaigning more? Why is she not getting involved in politics? *Correct me if I am wrong
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Totally agree that centralizing operations is inefficient. But there are budget technicalities that constrain the direct download of funds to LGUs, which really is more efficient. It’s a quandary! @johntmorales
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The Stringer campaign has tried all the old attack moves: adding details not included in Ms. Kim's brief account in an attempt to discredit her, trotting out his spouse who
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1. There is a section in Ziauddin Sardar's "Balti Britain" (a crap book, by an excellent writer) where we talks about the transfer of power between hakims/vaids to European trained
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In the winter time my parents would bundle me and my brother together in bed, because it got so cold that ice would form on the insides of our windows
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Most of England - politicians, media, public - has little idea of the extraordinary political event which has taken place in Scotland.The same’s true of many Scottish unionists.The Union’s closer
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It’s a slight stretch, but a series on 1990’s heavyweight boxing would be absolutely incredible. Great fights, yes, and boxing history, but the personalities on display are really what would
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Hahahahaha duuuh. Maskin kinsa ang presidente daghan japon reklamo. What’s new? And tanan presidente, tao, maong naa jud guru silay mali mabuhat. Sulti2 lang mo karon kung unsay dapat
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This is unfair. "Filipina" has been used since the Spanish occupation, as part of a movement to assert women's rights. Pinoy and Pinay have been used by Filipinos in America
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#AfricanLivesMatter A young attorney asked me to mentor him. I sent him 10 books on politics, economics , business leadership & history and asked him to read before our first
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As colleges & universities, including my own, announce ambitious plans to bring students back to campus amidst #COVID19, #highered leaders still haven’t fully faced the risks of campus party culture
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If you supported Bernie because you like his ideology, and want the party to move left, I wholeheartedly welcome you. I don't disagree! Democrats should move left. We have been,
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The first rule of hole digging is when you find yourself in one, stop digging. The country is in a much deeper hole then it would have been because of
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Short thread for journalism students @bbclaurak #DominicCummings and using unnamed sources: citing unnamed sources is a fact of life in political reporting, using one in this case in the way
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I read that breaking international law is a great negotiating move by the UK government, or we're stopping Ireland starving (study some history) and I get the nasty politics, but
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