#Discourse

Sorry for more coup discourse (I’m agnostic!), but it’s amazing how deniers, as here, all seem to use the same playbook: breezily conflate “coup” with “coup attempt,” and assert definitional
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This article is worth reading for its firsthand account of the people involved in the fascist uprising, but this particular detail really struck me. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/25/among-the-insurrectionists This characterizat
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as someone who does therapy/ has to take mood meds it took me a while to get past the defensiveness that you often need just to reach out for help
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Interesting that as #GE2020 surges on, and PAP narratives get disrupted, we're seeing folks—in good & bad faith—downplay social media as illusory & misrepresentative.A rambling thread on the strange,
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Two related but distinct reasons to regulate instructor-student sex: 1) "Abuse": sex under conditions of unequal power can create *sexual harms.* 2) "Equity": Sex can create differential access (or perception
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In context, Kierkegaard is distinguishing between abstract future-oriented and concrete present-oriented responses to suffering. The passage from which Biden quotes is taken from Kierkegaard’s The Gospel of Sufferings in Upbuilding
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I wanted to stay out of this because Paper Mario discourse is always tiring. But still want to comment on the "We can't modify Mario-characters anymore" thing.This actually reminded me
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1/9 I know that sometimes it's easy to be a bit flippant with the discourse around gender ID stuff, eg w/some of the dumb pronoun points, but this really is
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A rant about #trust following the terrific discussions at #IDPolicyForum yesterday and today. #digitalidentity THREAD ... 1/9 "Trust" of course is talked of everywhere. In #IDPolicyForum, a speaker bounced around
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The discourse on who gets to be black is understandable for sure but god damn does if it doesn’t make my life experience confusing as fuck I also feel like
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I think for myself that talking about the AmRev as “unfinished” is perhaps the most useful discourse we can have around the memory of the AmRev & in defining our
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1. On language: In 1984, George Orwell created a totalitarian universe that has since become so famous it gave birth to its own adjective. Both sides of the political spectrum
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to the NIPs debate folk:1. Nobody's offended by the acronym, at least not anybody with the fortitude to long on to Twitter. 2. It's a joke. We get it. We
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Inspired by this week's (great) Drinking with Historians on evangelicalism with @varsha_venkat_ & @prof_gabriele, I want to share what my homeschooling US history textbook looked like & how Trump's current
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I check into This Place every now and then and think about coming back. I miss many of you and have fond memories. But every time I log in Twitter
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Who am I when I’m roleplaying, and what does this mean about identity? This is the type of question that really interests me about games. If I’m pretending to be
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