#Rhetoric

Hungry Hungry Himbo

OnlyAWorldAway

This image from the 80s illustrates a point I want to make about certain people who masquerade as "anti woke Leftists" or "post Left", and their agenda. So this will

Mina Ibrahim I مينا ابراهيم

minaibrahim292

(A thread) the ruse of victimhood is embedded in its template based analysis. Anti-semitism, Islamophobia, the culture of martyrdom among many religious and national groups have become so powerful in

Musa Okwonga

Okwonga

Athletes with outspoken and progressive social views absolutely terrify the hard Right and far-Right. I am seeing so much of that fear in Germany, the US and the UK. They

Jack Jenkins

jackmjenkins

I was reminded in reporting this piece that religious rhetoric among lawmakers is ubiquitous.Both GOPers & Dems—the latter embracing spiritual boldness of late—invoke the divine *constantly.*It only sometimes shows up

Rob Ford

robfordmancs

The cost-benefit on "shutting things with a vaccine literally being rolled out" is not the same as the cost-benefit on "shutting things with no idea when a vaccine will come,

Mr. Mo'Kelly 🎙️

MrMokelly

1) You do NOT have a Constitutional right to post on ANY private social media site."Free Speech" protects you against PROSECUTION for your views, not persecution, ostracization or posting privileges

James Wilson

jamewils

Psychological scientists Martin Reinmann and Philip Zimbardo came with an idea as to why we are capable of horrible acts. In their 2011 paper," The Dark Side of Social Encounters",

Alexander Reid Ross

areidross

Re: recent debates about the Boogs, I think that we need to separate rhetoric from reality. They're a far-right movement that uses ostensibly left-wing rhetoric in much the same fashion

Matthew J. Peterson

docMJP

One possible silver lining is how many people, having never met a master bureaucrat operating at God-level, take a long time to realize what a slippery continuously calibrating eel of

Suspected Chinese Spy Joel Berry

JoelWBerry

(Thread) People like French have the luxury of maintaining ideological purity because they have never had to put their ideas to action in the real world. They don’t work for

Becka awoke crying.

jinglebex

"Talk to Your Conservative Family" Doesn't Work Because They Dismiss Pathos as Identity Politics, A Thread If, like me, you have the pleasure of one or more family members being

Chad Felix Greene

chadfelixg

Its my view conservatives belong to a persecuted and marginalized minority based exclusively on how the left defines those concepts.We are targeted for violence.Harassment.Discrimination.Demonization.Stereotyping.Hateful rhetoric.Suppressio

Marco Rogers

polotek

This will absolutely be used for evil. But the important thing to understand is that it will most likely be the incredibly banal kind. The kind where people give themselves

Julian Sanchez

normative

The truly perverse thing about the current electronic voting security freakout, motivated by a desire to deny the results of the presidential election, is that for DECADES this really was

Daniel Milton

Dr_DMilton

Warning: long thread on the terrorism label and what happened on January 6 in Washington, DC. The label of terrorism should not be tossed around lightly. It can be overused,

Ibrahim S. Amin

Ibrahim_S_Amin

Perhaps counterintuitively, the Quran becomes a more interesting book once you accept it's of human rather than divine origin. As a Quranist Muslim, my relationship with the Quran (particularly in

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