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by user982 5y ago
https://twitter.com/AliAbunimah/status/1396362010963726339
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There was this incident from last month: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/11/cambodia-condemns-v... Cambodia has called on US media group Vice to withdraw an article that featured newly-colourised
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Iran's proxies have fought against: 1) US, the illegal invader actively destabilizing the region for two straight decades+. 2) ISIS, the brutal Islamist neo-Caliphate birthed from the destabilization brought by (1). 3) KSA, currently b
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Don't look directly at the hasbara.
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news.com.au is News Corp is Rupert Murdoch.
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I was surprised to learn that this is all done in-app: https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1372719985496182786
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The ban is apparently to prevent access to paternity testing. Medical/scientific/judicial purposes are exempted.
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"we tripped and hand-edited her bio and individually all her tweets by accident" - https://twitter.com/caseyjohnston/status/1392254007939305480
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That mummy at the bottom looks extraordinary. From its own page: "Xin Zhui's body was remarkably well preserved in an unknown fluid inside the coffin. Her skin was soft and moist, with muscles that still allowed for her arms and
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eschewed -> hewed. I wouldn't normally point typos out, but this one inverts your meaning.
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You're describing supersets.
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Yes, of course it matters. There are much closer examples temporally, politically, and physically that Myanmar would have actually learned from (e.g., India's Modi shutting down Kashmir's internet beginning in 2019). Trying to ass
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This is hilarious: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=persuasion.community
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When it's mentioned at all, Sally Ride is sometimes called the second-ever woman in space (e.g., https://www.businessinsider.com/sally-ride-first-american-wo... ). She wasn't; she was the third, and 20 years after
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> I just can't understand the hate they get in other fronts. Other fronts are other fronts than the good works you listed.
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https://www.uml.edu/Research/public-opinion/polls/2020/Race-... "Democrats, liberals, Americans under the age of 50 and those who score low on the racial resentment scale are all far more likely tha
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Hey now, the FBI/police drugging Hampton and twice shooting his unconscious body point blank in the head was ruled a justifiable homicide.
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https://frinkiac.com/video/S08E25/TgoGThGJQI1NbhzU25san1zSni...
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> In my view Glenn has integrity. That means something. I don't doubt he would have written a similar story if the facts related to any powerful politician. Trump, McConnell, Pelosi, anyone. Do you? I've read Greenwald since
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I used an ellipsis for brevity. Explain how that changed the meaning of the quotation into disingenuousness?
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> According to BBC the most popular accounts on Parler were people like Sean Hannity and Ted Cruz...fairly normal republicans of the kind that are still not banned on Twitter and Facebook (like the two persons I mentioned). The two per
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> Imagine if Barack Obama decided to go ahead and punt some SCOTUS members ahead of the end of their terms, because he was afraid he was going to lose his upcoming elections? Imagine if Barack Obama had Supreme Court appointments block
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Hands up if you knew Trump had a Twitch account before this announcement. Keep them raised if you'd watched it. Anyone?
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Police are standing back and standing by. https://twitter.com/jazmineulloa/status/1346898566703435779 https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1346902299466203145 https://twitter.
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Conversely, I picked up a book titled "All the Real Indians Died Off", which was intended to dispel such myths about Native Americans. One of the first chapters was an attack on the Bering land bridge hypothesis as "just a th
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"Repeatedly"? That was BuzzwordBingo's 7th comment, and their first to even approach ideological commentary. You've banned them and me under that basis, but accounts like s9w and rayiner are given free rein for years.
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Interesting that "slithy" passes spellcheck but "toves" doesn't.
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My kneejerk concern is that this result will be used to attack or dismiss the idea/existence/manifestation of genius.
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A more accurate ASVAB?
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Phil Donahue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Donahue#MSNBC_program On February 25, 2003, MSNBC canceled the show. Soon after the show's cancellation, an internal MSNBC memo was leaked to the press stating tha

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