#Politics

The story of modern government is the attempt to abolish judgement. To outsource decisions to some set of "neutral" procedures which will self-execute, free from the corrupting influence of human
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It's not just Nancy Pelosi who thinks her hair is more essential than your livelihood. Democrats are liars who want to rule over every aspect of your life. But their
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1/A quick thread about anti-tech sentiment in the media. Some folks, like my friend Balaji, believe that the media has intentionally pushed an anti-tech narrative in order to get pageviews...https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1248957097229737985
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It's actually pretty simple. A part of politics is selling out some part of your coalition in favor of another part, or in the case of a losing coalition, a
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Thread on what drives Brexit Brexit voters think they decided to vote for Brexit. But PR drives group thinking.The Tory Party works as unit via a PR grid.Ken Clarke exposed
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10 years ago I spent some time in Beijing working on a project which helped enhance the advocacy capabilities of Chinese environmental NGOs (ENGOs) /1 Together with American and Chinese
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American Friends I feel my tweets haven't been very favourable of late, and also that I don't actually know that much about the US beyond politics+stereotypes. (Cool it Florida.)Tell me:
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Buddhism is a theory of radical decentralization, specifically of the self, a recognition that suffering comes from seeking to impose a coherent center on what is ultimately decentralized and emergent.
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1. The world does not become better by all of us being our best selves. That’s because there are things in the world that are the citizenship equivalent of taking
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People who've been trying to call each incident of violence "terrorism" over the past few years: time to reassess your advocacy.Trump's agenda for a 2nd term includes, "Prosecute Drive-By Shootings
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Everyone who signed the goofy harpers letter should be forced to respond in detail to @OsitaNwanevu's complete preemptive dismantling of its core ideas.https://newrepublic.com/article/158346/willful-blindness-reactionary-liberalism Whoo
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According to the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey Voting and Registration Supplement, non-voters' self-reported most frequent reason for abstaining from the 2016 general election was they didn't like the candidateshttps
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The latest thoughtful assessment of the nature of the Sino-US competition has generated interesting debates on the contribution of ideologic differences to that competition. @ElbridgeColby & Kaplan’s article frames things
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Today/yesterday marks another great British achievement and triumph for British exceptionalism. Because yesterday, on the main globally published #coronavirus figures we overtook China to reach number 6 in the world
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Every day more details come out..and more positives from the Rose Garden event where all guests were testedAnd it makes the whole thing worse.This notion that you can carry out
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hhmm. let me put it this way. I pay attention to how people in movement spaces use slogans in relation to how psychologically grounded they appear or don't appear to
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