@NorthernBoy1904 @NewsOrFallSong Sounds like a lost lyric from Warren Zevon's Werewolves of London
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Roger Giner-Sorolla
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I see an element of contradiction here
It is hard to argue that some demographic groups don't deserve special protection, due to their particular vulnerability
BUT. Claiming that you deserve both special protection *and power* is vile, absurd, totally abhorrent
Mike Lee@BasedMikeLee
No decent person—any certainly no conservative person—should mock an 83-year-old’s fall That was heartbreaking, and the thought of anyone finding it amusing is hard to fathom
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@CillianMacAodh As an example of the bogus pipeline technique, of course.
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@CillianMacAodh The photocopier polygraph is actually US police lore old enough to have been quoted in the 1990 Zimbardo and Leippe attitudes textbook I taught from in grad school!
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Game Theory lecture today one of my favourites where I get to show loads of fun videos.
Old faithful clip from The Wire
youtu.be/AJ5aIvjNgao?si…
YouTube
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In Russian, “Chud” was a somewhat disparaging term towards Finno-Ugric people meaning something like “strange”, “weird”. Basically all kinds of “weird” natives, Slavic settlers are encountering when pressing east
“Chud Lake” divides Russia & Estonia, for example
Chudjak@chudjak
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It says that approving of something & inviting other people to approve of it is allowed "assuming it does not cross the line into inviting support": but there is no line. They're two slightly different ways of saying the exact same thing
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"Inviting someone else to provide encouragement to or intellectual support for a proscribed organisation" is an offence, but "expressions of personal beliefs or personal approval for a proscribed organisation, or invitations to someone else to share that opinion or belief" aren't
Madoc Cairns@MadocCairns
Another example of how absurd the UK government's position now is: Section 12 offences (as the independent reviewer notes below) target attempts to recruit for or sustain a proscribed group. It's logically impossible to do so for Palestine Action - because PA no longer exists.
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@vurnt22 Basically, in the 80's, if you were named after a continent, you were pompous AF.
And remember the "Heat of the Moment" video? From the days when "we will show you literally every image from the lyrics" was a school of video making.
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That’s easy-Traveling Wilburys downplayed their wealth & fame from their name, which sounds like a grandma quilt. Asia’s name (unintentionally) invoked British Imperial appropriation. It’s combo of Drama & Virtuosity placed them cinematically above & aloof from the Pub Punter.
Joe Momma@jmforge1
@vurnt22 Oy🙄😉 but seriously ladies and germs, why did the traveling Wilburys get so much love but Asia just catches grief? Is there some kind of supergroup hierarchy? And if so, where would we put Damn Yankees
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@EdmundGriffiths 'Find a party name that doesn't sound like an Iain M. Banks Culture vessel' challenge
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God almighty, there are people out there suggesting names that make Friendship Is Magic sound like Party of Left Socialist-Revolutionaries (Internationalist)
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@JohnHolbein1 For starters, the heavily truncated y-axis
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Which majors give instructors the highest and lowest scores?
What stands out to you?
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Holy shit what
(this is the President of Colombia)
Gustavo Petro@petrogustavo
Este resultado le daría la victoria en Reino Unido a Jeremy Corbin, amigo personal del progresismo colombiano, y su partido "Su Fiesta" seguido del Partido laborista, los conservadores de últimas. La humanidad necesita ese resultado.
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@NebraskaMegan That's low hanging fruit for a band name, "Libertarian Gamer Phase"
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I grew up Republican in a small town and went through a Libertarian gamer phase in my early 20s. Became a Democrat and left when the natl party used my progressive accomplishments to fundraise while refusing to support Dem candidates in Nebraska
Have talked about this many times
John@TXFirst45
Look at this party registration history. I’m sure this person is quite moderate!
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Roger Giner-Sorolla retweetledi
I have a goal (not my only one): It's to follow all of the junior social scientists that are on Twitter.
Who am I missing?
(Please self-nominate!)
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@EdmundGriffiths Cromwell naming his son instead of just going out like Francisco Franco.
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Only one right answer
Luke Tryl@LukeTryl
When did Britain start to go wrong? In @NewStatesman @georgeeaton looks at our polling of when the public think our turn for the worst was. Brexit tops the list, but different voters disagree. Reform voters most likely to pick Blair’s election as putting Britain on wrong track
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@linkshund It turns out the new party was entirely composed of agents of MI5, MI6, the Met, GCHQ, 15 county constabularies, Naval Intelligence, the CIA, the FSB, the Anti-Comintern, Meta, and one actual leftist ironically named Thursday.
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If I were an agent of the state I'd do the opposite of this as a double bluff, to provoke other activists into doing it for me. This is a silly game to play.
Jeremy Gilbert@jemgilbert
If were an agent of the state trying to ensure that a new left wing party didn't become any kind of threat, I would simply do everything in my power to prevent alliances with other parties and to exclude individuals or media organisations with large popular followings.
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@giorgiobee See what happens when you leave out the initial A.
legacy.com/us/obituaries/…
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@EdmundGriffiths not going to lie, the invocation of 'normal people' in these arguments sets my teeth on edge
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The problem with our political meetings isn't that there's not enough dancing at them, it's that there's not enough politics
newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…
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@aaolomi Respect to Johnny Cash but his Gospel Road movie had the whitest Jesus possible, an actual Swedish-American
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Jesus was a Middle Eastern Jew named Yeshua. Palestinian Christians are quite literally related to Jesus. Sorry Jesus wasn’t american
Park MacDougald@hpmcd1
Lots of guys with names like "Khalil" and "Firas" and "Zaid" and "Shadi" logging on to explain to American Protestants what Christianity is and isn't over the last couple days...
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@rinireg The people continually express their electoral rejection of the status quo the winning party inevitably ends up endorsing, until one party reaches out and stops the swinging pendulum dead on.
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if the US election were held again today, Kamala Harris - or even Joe Biden - would probably win
Polling USA@USA_Polling
What an incredible graph
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@yashkaf @katrosenfield open relationship ... or open letter?
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@katrosenfield as Scott Alexander pointed out: the important variable isn't a person who's in an open marriage, but a person who wants to write about the intimate details of their marriage for a national audience
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extremely tragic if predictable iteration of the how it started/ how it’s going meme
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