#Discourse

Glenn Greenwald

ggreenwald

The aggressive purge of Jews from the Labour Party under the repressive rule of @Keir_Starmer marches on.I haven't seen a sustained campaign of overt anti-Semitism quite like the effort of

Taras Fedirko

peasantpedant

Ukraine’s Security Council has sanctioned and effectively banned 3 all-news TV channels allied with Viktor Medvedchuk (ZIK, 112, NewsOne) for spreading “pro-Russian propaganda”. Nothing like this has ever happened in

Native Thoughts

nativethoughts

What constitutes a nation ? Every one should ask this question ?The concept of nationhood includes the land, the people who historically existed ( not invaders / migrants ), the

nicholas

nwhittaker10

ok last take and then i'm logging off: I am tired of people like Stock, and the philosophers enabling her, getting to the control the narrative about "how trans people

mads

utahmads

One problem with Law and Order and Public Safety discourse is that we treat laws themselves like neutral entities when they most certainly are not Working on convincing our people

🪶Cuchillo Lope🪶

HosteenCholo

So I love westerns. They are one of my favorite genres of film that I grew up with.I have a hypothesis that two movies killed the western genre.Those two movies

Michael Hattem

MichaelHattem

A thread on history/memory: Ppl who know little about history are more easily manipulated by historical memories designed to emotionally exploit previously held beliefs & prejudices (while those who do

teia

zedsexism

seeing a lot of "irish people as colonised and oppressed" vs "irish people as colonisers and oppressors" discourse on the tl today and the shocking answer is literally that both

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

The wealthy and powerful spent decades creating a hateful, paranoid environment where conspiracy theories enabled the dismantling of government as a public good, culminating in Trump and an outright fascist

Kathleen Belew

kathleen_belew

The problem here is that we still have to explain "the Oklahoma City bombing (1995)". We're talking about the largest deliberate mass casualty on American soil between Pearl Harbor and

Glenn Greenwald

ggreenwald

The more contempt there is for rancid, poisonous, manipulative discourse like this, the better.People have every right to scorn warmongers, imperialists & militarists regardless of their demographics.The neoliberal scam of

GET A GRIP 💙

docrussjackson

Seeing as #Foucault is trending, I have some quotes: "If you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal, then you are sick. These three

AfriCOG

AfriCOG

1/9 Three decades into the transition from an authoritarian one-party state to multiparty democracy, and well over a decade into a new progressive constitutional dispensation, Kenya’s democratic transition is seriously

Nick "Childish Branzino” Birman-Trickett

ntrickett16

McFaul's policy recs are all solid, but the discourse around Russia as a rising power really misrepresents the underlying political economy of Russian foreign policy as well as how the

Brian Weatherson

bweatherson

This is very good from Henry.One of the general points behind it - that we should think about what our contributions add to the conversation - has a bunch of

Andy

AndyEyeballs

I want to add to this: A lot of the discourse about what we culturally call "narcissism" is about how it looks from the outside -- I very rarely hear

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