#Elites

'Mitra-Varuna' of Rig-Veda who become 'Mithra' for ancient Iranian was the 'Mithras' for Romans long before arrival of Christianity. In the middle of the third Millennium BC, a branch of
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Eh. This kinda like “all romances are feminist” and that’s just not true. But okay.https://twitter.com/nickofthebooks/status/1272982005333012484 Y’all keep wanting to paint this genre in the way that you want it
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Measured yes, but not uncontroversial, in large part because there is unspoken agreement among many today that violence is not only a legitimate form of political expression, but is in
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In case you haven't been following the story of the year, read this! #wallstreetbets #GameStop https://twitter.com/MrBrownEyes2020/status/1354517067240771584 Basically, a bunch of guys on Reddit did more to hold financial elites account
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Omnivorousness comment: the system of genre hierarchies is effected by omnivorousness. It is not stable, just as tastes are not stable. Styles of music that are “low/middlebrow” at T1, consumed
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Magnum as USSR—the article is abt USSR fall, but many parts are adaptable: "[I]n times of severe crisis, institutional elites face a decision point. Do they cling to the system
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I proudly voted to re-elect President Trump today, but a large part of my decision was to vote against Joe Biden. I also voted for every Republican on the ballot.
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I RTed this thread by @mattsheffield yesterday because it contains crucial observations on conservative media. However, I strongly disagree with the idea that Trump’s supporters are being "misled" and I
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After 10 years of misrule, they are beaten by a chaiwallah. A phenomenon called Narendra Modi rises. This one is different from all others. He doesn’t wine and dine with
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(1 ) Until Americans realize that much of these things happening at once to our country, truly is a 5D BATTLE between other countries to take over and dominate OUR
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I think the competition with the Soviet Union and the fear of a Communist insurgency inside of the US forced our business interests and conservative elites to compromise with the
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When President Obama pioneered selective enforcement of law, media elites applauded. Now there is this line: “The measures would attempt to wrest away some of Congress’s most fundamental, constitutionally mandated
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Manufacturing will not help Kenya. The only reason people believe the lie is because we have swallowed the Anglo-Saxon hogwash that they have the formula to "development". Manufacturing will reduce
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It's worth juxtaposing this with that former Q guy who came on CNN and apologized for thinking Anderson Cooper eats babies.The lunatic fringe of Q is strategically necessary.https://twitter.com/quackocracy/status/1356246361801297920 One
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OMG...IT'S GETTING BIGGER AND BIGGER I CAN'T EVEN SEE THE TOP OF IT NOW...You think TRUMP SUPPORTERS will be PASSIVE and NOT TURN OUT this November?When they keep being ENRAGED
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Never has Berger and Luckmann (1966) resonated so much as it does in the context of Trump’s current challenges to the legitimacy of our electoral system. I teach this text
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