Political Discourse
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most of the "anime left" discourse either treats showa-era left-wing creators as being dated/part of a soft power effort/outright regressive OR they look at historical left-wing gr...
This strikes me as a classic example of "evil triumphs when good people do nothing" I see lots of right-leaning people saying that arresting these kids was ridiculous and awful I...
RW Twitter is one of the only places where people honestly discuss the reality and ubiquity of human tribalism. But RW Twitter is also one of the only places where people come up...
This person's og tweet was dumb but a lot of the responses here show how political discourse in East Asia is at cross purposes with discourses on here by Westerners-ie its Japanese...
RJ Sayema or Arfa Khanum or other influential politically active Muslim women in India do not wear Hijab themselves but support school girls wearing it because - choice. Problem is...
1. Only extreme domain silos devoid of knowledge of real nature of those domains would lead to someone claim that people and society don't matter. Did the Indian State matter to K...
Sorry but young people’s “politics” are extremely plastic & increasingly formed by dumb shit they absorb online from twerps like me or other “content creators”. The idea that the l...
1/ A Permission Structure is a set of ideas, concepts, and reasons, that provide a *SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE* justification for someone to hold their views without losing their *SOCIAL...
I think what the Twitter Files really show is that political discourse is downstream of the regime-media interface. The character of political discourse of the last couple of decad...
One of the things that’s becoming clear to me from #TwitterFiles2 is there are big parts of the online left that actually can’t discern a difference between abuse & spam vs. politi...
1/x: A thread on Hindutva - by a Sikh. The basics 1st >> Hindutva is an etymologically, lexicologically & historically more accurate term for Hinduism (which is not an ‘ism’ in the...
People on both sides of divisive disputes repeatedly put words into each other's mouths and then retort: "I cannot imagine why they think that."
I read this whole article, which I almost never do anymore. I’ve not seen anyone say this yet, so I will: the voices in this piece are actually offering a variant on the commonly a...
EIGHT PRINCIPLES OF SETTLER-COLONIALISM: A THREAD 🧵👇
1/ The reason the woke are panicking about @elonmusk owning twitter is because twitter is what the woke use to control the narrative. This is where the woke engineer discourse and...
"So, in particular, I say that Indians in diaspora can look into India’s rich past for new ways of fashioning themselves as participants in the ideal global conversation." Richar...
@quadrismegistus Definitely agree whiteness is not the primary category here. But I think that if you want to tangle with that view it's important to reckon w/ how a move to depict...
I came across this thoughtful response a while back, on Facebook of all places, and to this day it’s still one of the best intros to the “is China socialist?” question I’ve seen.
Why has this shameless Khalistani Nihang supremacist thug Yung Bhujang blocked me? This Nihang supremacist goon is a bootlicker of terrorist Bhindranwale. He is one of the filthie...
Lokanath Misra during a debate in the Constituent Assembly: "Article 19 [Became article 25 of the constitution after revision] is a Charter for Hindu enslavement. I do really feel...
Tweets you can use while replying to AndhBhakts. Thread. 1. Secularism. https://t.co/qr0QB4QxLp
