#Scapegoating

Duncan Reyburn

duncanreyburn

A thread on the psychology of disgust & the culture wars. Our engagement with the moral order is affected/mediated by our disgust response, much like our enjoyment of wine is

Fingal Communities Against Racism

FingalTogether

The appointment of the former managing editor of The Sun, Paul Clarkson, as government press secretary is alarming for anybody aware of the track record of that publication in stoking

Frédéric Leroy

fleroy1974

Are #vegan diets really the 'single biggest way' to reduce our carbon footprints & environmental impact on the planet? We argue that this is a highly misleading claim & that

Alice Wilder

Alice_Wilder

I’ve spent the last year listening to *every* episode of the Trump campaign’s official podcast.I found a near constant stream of misinformation, especially around voter fraud in the 2020 election.

Abdullahi Halakhe

QulshTM

on 15, 2016, Kenya experienced its largest ever military defeat when al-Shabaab fighters attacked and overran an AMISOM forward operating base garrisoned by KDF troops from the 9th Rifle Battalion

黒の剣士

EliteAlice1

Read 86: A thread.(Yes, it’s long)TL:DR It’s peak fiction. 86 is, in my opinion, without a doubt the best ongoing Light Novel series. The series is a military science fiction

Lighthouse Reports

LHreports

Frontex is one of the EU’s best funded agencies, projecting itself as the firm-but-fair guardian of Europe’s borders. A technocratic panacea to a continent’s migration anxiety. The reality is starkly

Anna Gát

TheAnnaGat

Always feel Silicon Valley obsesses over Girard (+ Marcus Aurelius) because they simply don't know about other philosophers who'd be much more relevant.Here's a list of some stuff you should

Adrian Yalland

AdrianYalland

I have recently had an influx of new followers. Thank you - I’m honoured (you must all be VERY bored to follow me). Many seem to be radical feminists and

Alex

JewishWonk

Ron is asking this question in good faith and I hear it very often in Jewish spaces. A simple answer to this: Practically all parts of the left, broadly defined,

Who's Gonna Be Lucky Indicted #2? - Brian Cates

drawandstrike

Understand why you are seeing a last stand effort by the Progressive Left & Democrat Party to **force** people to submit to the idea that America is a "systemically racist

Tim Wise

timjacobwise

1/ I’m not one for ‘told ya so’s but in 1989 when David Duke won the state House seat in Louisiana, some of us said this was an inflection point

Omar Sakr

OmarjSakr

Normal country with normal responses to an uncontroversial, obvious claim from people who've been occupied for 20 years. The Brereton report is extraordinary because it comes from within the defence

Shaun Lawson

shaunjlawson

So here's a complicated position (or set of positions?) for you. My own ones.1. The narrative about antisemitism in Labour was a disgrace, a nonsense, and 99.7% false (and provably

Russ

RussInCheshire

There are only 2 possible reasons why the right would want to label the Nazis as "left wing".1: they're thick as shitor2: they're smart enough to realise their own policies

Katherine Cross

Quinnae_Moon

In other news, I know that I've been tweeting a lot about my fears regarding shame and the COVID-19 pandemic. I don't want you to mistake this for me not

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