#Setbacks

2/In recent years, China's economic model has seemed to go from strength to strength. Many now wonder if Chinese state-capitalism is superior to other systems.https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-newsletter-9 3/But China's mod
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Manuel Neuer: A trailblazer. A man who is revolutionising goalkeeping”Manuel Neuer is the best goalkeeper I’ve played with;” Xabi Alonso[APPRECIATION THREAD] There are very few players that transcend a position
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1/Today's @bopinion post is about a rare weak point in the Chinese economic model: China's difficulty in doing foreign deals.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-12-18/china-s-belt-and-road-project-reveals-a-key-economic-
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The Hisoka discourse has got me thinking that a lot of people don’t see much value to his character and I can totally understand why, so I decided to take
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LIVE THREAD! The 12th South China Sea Conference is about to start. Live tweets will be updated here in this thread! #scsc12 Vietnam has always been making every effort in
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CW: SuicideAll right, folks, strap in. It's Suicide Prevention Month, and Week, and this is very nearly my birthday. So...we're gonna talk suicide, ideation, what really goes through someone's head
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2020 will be known as a historically significant year, forever. We are all familiar with the devastation, setbacks, trauma and grief globally. The decade is still young. I still see
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Alrighty, breakfast consumed, coffee imbibed, let's go.So, I started writing PROBLEMATIC in June of 2016. I'd finished my dissertation at Oxford and had six weeks with access to Oxford resources
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Thread:@Timcast decides President Trump is blowing smoke when he states "Hundreds of arrests" from the rioting.Tim doubts it.WHY?Because he hasn't SEEN any specific coverage in the MSM!Since they're not covering
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Thread: WHAT'S THE PLAN, MAN?Day WHO GIVES A F**K ANYMORE? (60) in Portland Warzone (Oregon) as the nightly Battle between President Trump's Team of LAW & ORDER Federal Agents &
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(Thread) Why the Far Right has so much successDC asks this:https://twitter.com/dcdeejay/status/1107310447907098625Recall that the GOP has been taken over by RWAs (right wing authoritarians: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318260321
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Part of the problem with the way both political ideology & religion are discussed is that while both are clearly determined by social rules—we defend our ID’d ‘team’ for ex—when
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All right.Let's talk about how the Confederacy survived the Civil War, was absorbed into our culture, laws, and politics, and remains an everpresent threat we must destroy.I didn't know any
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A Look at Taipei Zoning & City Planning - a thread! A close look (complete with technical details!) at one of Asia's newest yet interesting cities. 1/ As cities in
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"We have no way of knowing if the speaker is a young [sexy] man in spandex in San Francisco or a longtime berkeley resident" --Becky O'Malley, opining on zoom meetings
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Thread: TRUMP'S UNSUNG VICTORIES #3 THE COURTS.President Trump longest lasting legacy for the American People will be THE COURTS.In one highly sandbagged & sabotaged Term of Office he nonetheless managed
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