#Revolution

friendly reminder since this is going around again: DO NOT EAT THE RICH!it's called bio-magnification, people! the rich are at the top of the food chain, so they accumulate toxins
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I‘m a democrat. I believe in democratic elections. I don’t believe in attempting to topple governments, unless it is *absolutely* necessary.We had an election in 2019. We lost. We may
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Here it goes. I can’t stress enough how that recent take on ‘secular liberals’ and the Arab uprisings is both out of touch AND extremely harmful. I’ve seen many people
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The American Cultural Revolution is going to put to the test an interesting hypothesis advanced by @epkaufm in his excellent 2019 book "Whiteshift" (for my review, see below). 1/xhttps://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/11/the-fut
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30 years ago on this day in the city of Timisoara protests started after the communist regime tried to evict Hungarian Calvinist priest Laszlo Tokes from his home. The crowds
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About 4 years ago, I gave some money to my daily help to buy her first ever smartphone. And today, something wonderful happened. A thread... My help, who usually comes
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Have you heard yesterday’s 75 mins speech of #NaMo in RajyaSabha? Brilliant, full of wisdom,truth of polity, nationalism and growth. If you haven’t, pls do. But Modi haters will not
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In addition to opposing mob violence, there's another reason statues of our founding fathers, including those who owned slaves, should not be abolished.They were Enlightenment thinkers who, w one sentence,
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With Bitcoin blowing past $20k today, crypto fever is back. Yet most describe it as a “new class of assets.” Which critically underplays the disruption that is blockchain. So here’s
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Yesterday obesity, today cycling https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-kickstarts-2bn-cycling-and-walking-revolution Government announcement includes- funding - infrastructure - measures to cut congestion and pollution- road safety CEDAR r
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Systems are a convenient apologia. Slave trade preceded colonialism. Poverty predates capitalism. Nature, in its undiluted state, is already divisive. Systems are not to fault for man's tribulations. We fault
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Last night was the first time I’d seen Hamilton.My wife has seen it live a couple of times (one was supposed to be with me, but I let my daughter
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FeV prices continue to creep up:http://www.asianmetal.com/VanadiumPrice/Vanadium.htmlIn contrast to almost all other hard commodities over the past ~6 months, V has remained suppressed.This is because the primary source of V comes
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People might enjoy Margaret MacMillan's take on War: What is it Good for?Much of the terrain is familiar. How to define war. How to interpret the experiences of war. War
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This is so damn concerning. When Norma Lester served on the Shelby County, TN election commission, she once found an employee of voting machine vendor ES&S alone in the county’s
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Want to understand Vietnam's extremely tricky position when it comes to building socialism? Just look at energy.Vietnam is at risk of facing a 5% energy shortage in the next two
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