#Politics

She’s getting at something that I’ve been turning around in my head for a while. Our culture venerates people “working hard,” but people should be allowed to live a *less
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Hitler *was* opposed with reason & evidence. He still took power. He didn’t do that by winning most votes or seats. He did it through using speech & force to
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The NYTimes takes a bold position promoting censorship.https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1252238110370476033 As usual, such tweets result in people explaining (wrongly) that it's not "censorship" because TV is privately owned. The NYTi
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X : One of our customers wants a new feature in our product.Me : Sounds good. Add it to the backlog.X : No other customer seems to want this. It's
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Unpopular opinion (for now): COVID is one of the BEST things to happen to the world. A THREAD about how their controls backfired. People lost their corporate jobs (sad),
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That Russian opposition leader who was ”poisoned” is a literal Nazi and the US media and ”intelligence” want to make you feel bad for this guy because they don't like
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It is easy to see of the loss of life from covid19, and hard to see the loss of life from closing schools, but, make no mistake, both rob people
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So, like a lot of you in BC I am trying to figure out who to vote for, or, frankly, whether to vote. at all I am depressed at what
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If you think the biggest scam unearthed in India was Commonwealth, 2G, Coalgate. You would be mistaken. The biggest of all scams is NPA (Non performing assets). The total loans
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I recently had a fascinating conversation with Slavoj Žižek hosted by @bigthink. The famed cultural critic and philosopher talked about state of emergency, why he ran for the Slovenian presidency,
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Why I believe that @ladygaga is Eva Peron (Evita) Reincarnated: A Thread Maria Eva Duarte (later Eva Peron) was born the 7th May 1919 and became the first lady of
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Full Beaver Moon Explained and Some Rituals You Can DoA thread https://sunshineandmoonstones.wordpress.com/2020/11/25/full-beaver-moon-explained-and-some-rituals-you-can-do/ What does Beaver Moon Mean?The full moon that appears in November
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I see “Activist Lawyer” is being bandied around again. I dislike the use of labels in this way because it is usually a tool to encourage prejudice & assumption rather
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The greatest sin we can commit against those lost to covid-19 -- both those we've already lost, and those whose losses are to come -- is to pretend that this
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Thread: So I’ve read in North Korea if Kim Jong Un dies, a possible successor is his sister, whose worked the politics of the regime. The Kim family has run
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Why do I try to read 52 books per year?No, it’s not because of the famous @tailopez YouTube ad.When I was a kid my parents used to read books to
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