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Unprovoked. Don’t hit women unprovoked, infact don’t hit anyone unprovoked. At the end of the day if someone hits you then you have every right to defend yourself but keep
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A report I wrote (as secretariat) on carbon pricing is out today. A few thoughts from me: 1. "of course carbon taxes are the right idea in principle, but they
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I've had a read of this thread. Interesting points. I am going to do a thread in response to this In Sha Allah 1/https://twitter.com/NourMGoda/status/1286104222916902914 Regarding the first point there is
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1/ Let's clear up some misunderstandings about the "5%er" narrativeDid Trump lose support among White men? YesDid this "cost him the election"? No, and in order to believe this, you
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Sometimes, in other leagues, a team like ours just begs for relegation. You know it’s inevitable and the fans look forward to the misery ending and what might happen next
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Why you should be careful with @/Eurokpop- a thread 1. The company has little to no value. They have made 0 money. It was registered one month ago. Do you
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Look, I'll translate it for you.Assad: "This siege has lasted for years – and that doesn’t mean that the siege is fine, and the Americans are innocent, no. The siege is
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Don't forget that Kat Rodriguez (the mom of young Black boy assaulted by this white Puerto Rican woman) is Afro-Latinx, also Puerto Rican herself. To tell her as a white
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This started something interesting in my brain.The 6-1-1 Tampa Bay Lightning have blocked 12% fewer shots per game than anyone else, and also block the fewest percentage of shot attempts
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If you want to understand why Apple keeps checking apps on your machine, just watch a bunch of smart technologists loudly encourage you to change your software based on valid-sounding
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On Jan 6th Trump extremists not only broke into the Capitol while the VP was there/both Houses in session, but appeared in capitols in at least 20 states. Not plausible
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Maybe the most crazy-making part of the Yang campaign is that some people are treating him and the lobbyists running his campaign like a blank slate. Yang has written TWO
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Revisiting this several years on. I still think Boyer and Atran are largely correct about how to understand religion. The divide between "elite" and "popular" religion, in particular seems more
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7 Signs that you're reading a good book (nonfiction)A thread... 1/ If you cannot read more than 30 pages in a go, even when you find it insightful. Reading a
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I have been sort of obsessed with this statue, ever since buying a small replica of it at the old sixth ave flea markets back in the late 90shttps://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1357325924761411584 It's
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Excellent analysis as per usual from Stephen. One idea he raises here which I think is really worth pondering is that welfare cuts for 2020s Cons could become like immigration
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