#Power

Why the electoral college sucks and how to fix it 1. The electoral college disproportionately favors small states: This is the 1st and most obvious effect. Residents in different states
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Dear Twitter: We need to have another talk about the strongman con. Why do you all give Trump so much power over you? He tells you to panic and you
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This week has been so difficult. Obviously we're at a point of absolute national crisis and that takes up a lot of mental space. But here in Omaha and of
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I wonder whether the predominant approach to abortion among conservative white evangelicals – i.e., vote for the explicitly anti-abortion Presidential candidate/platform – has become primarily a proxy for white evangelical
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So I’ve been really trying to choose my shopping trips carefully, #StayAtHomeAndStaySafe and whatnot. I went to Costco thinking I’d get some larger size veg to last a couple of
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A thread of quotes and sentences that stood out to me from books Ive read.Feel free to DM me for details of the books etc. 1) It taught me
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Badia vs Hadar, Who is lawful & who is chaotic?A #dnd #alqadim thread.It's a general expectation, not a fixed mold.The answer is; either & both.Badia people (bedouins) are lawful when
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Yeosang is such a STRONG person Rebelling against his parents , going secretly to a music academy while studying hard. This kid DID EVERYTHING to make his dream come true.
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ELECTORAL COLLEGE REFORM. Want to address the large state/small state discrepancy in the Electoral College without having to amend the Constitution? Easy. Vastly increase the size of the House Of
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If I may interrupt. Reading about methicide from the guy that coined the term, Joost A. M. Meerloo, M.D.He wrote "Rape of the mind" in 1956 after treating soldiers from
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shameless characters as tarot cards: a thread carl gallagher as the fool. innocence, freedom, originality, adventure, travel, foolishness, carelessness, idealism, youth, spontaneity, lack of commitment, & new beginnings lip gallagher
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I am deeply sceptical of TA in general (astrology for traders); however, I do recognize that there are recurring patterns that have predictive power, and these can be helpful.I bring
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Just because insulin resistance is associated with heart disease, and just because keto reduces one marker of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) (but makes other markers worse), does not mean that keto
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This is true! Something that I, as an academic linguist, wish everyone knew: linguists use ‘grammar’ in a different meaning than what they told you ‘grammar’ meant in school. Here
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RE the last thread (yes, it's been a while, busy otherwise!)I spent a lot of time thinking I wasn't legitimate to write Vietnamese culture into SFF--I'm diaspora and mixed-race and
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As a little exercise (not to be taken seriously, but I might as well share the results) I took the UK's daily death figures from https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/ and for each day
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