#Criticism

My thoughts on the whole Timo Werner situation at Chelsea. [THREAD] So far he has been bad. There is no other way to dress it up, however, it would be
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A few years ago a friend graciously, and publicly, confronted me online about a phrase I used, claiming it cultural appropriation. My first reaction was to engage with defensiveness and
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Remembering a life-changing experience I had at the hands of a teacher of mine, a rabbi in JerusalemIt was a bar mitzvah of one of the Yeshiva rabbis' sons, in
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Sengoku Lord and Post-Booking For LIJ after the event and how it can be tied back to Sengoku and Edo period Japan and their Shogunate based on a reddit post
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Some (really) off-the-cuff thoughts about the Trump natsec news (Iraq/Afghan drawdown, Iran Almost-War 2). Half-formed but inspired by (halting) work on my book on elite cues and war, plus chats
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@Folkhalsomynd today released an updated reported on relative risk and school employees, finding that teachers were not at increased risk compared to the rest of society. To their credit they
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There is a Seinfeld episode where Jerry goes to a Catholic priest to complain about his friend Tim Whatley who he believes converted to Judaism just for the jokes he
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Slavery in the South could not have flourished without help from the North. The deeply religious Mass Bay colony built the first American slave ship. Liberal Rhode Island sponsored thousands
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Underrepresented minorities have less access to sponsorship. By sharing detailed recognition of skills with examples benchmarked to career ladders, we can scaffold footholds for micro-sponsorship.Will you join me to sponsor
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Keir Starmer is on Radio 4 speaking about his sympathy and support for the government. He’s talking about his speaking skills. With that voice. He claims his team hasn’t helped
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(1) British QC David Perry, who has handled high-profile cases in HK over the past decade, steps down from the Hong Kong criminal case to prosecute Jimmy Lai & 8
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I loathe the idea that “deconstruction and subversion are only valid if the dumbest and most pig-headed audiences can understand them without any ambiguity.”Ignoring the fact that (at their worst)
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I think one of the big issues facing us today is:- Critical speech is a necessary type of speech, but- Posting critical speech in an online environment like ours (run
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Brief thread on Oldham, for anyone who’s interested.The problem with locking down Oldham today - aside from the obvious economic devastation - is that its numbers are down on last
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Lol I think I’ve gotta go with the time I didn’t like a Maureen Dowd column, quoted her own words about a book party and my bosses pretended I’d leveled
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As a gay Twitch streamer, a lot of people ask me whether or not straight allies should be allowed to use the LGBTQIA+ tag for their channel as a "safe
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