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The media cycle is an invention of modernity, as is its corollary: the lie that you are obligated to express an opinion about every news item.
There is more legitimate outrage in the world than it is healthy for you to be outraged about. Turn off the spigot and read Books.
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@BowTiedYukon
They're doing something. You're criticism of them is doing nothing. I think they're ahead of you.
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Call me crazy, but I think it is reasonable to fear that as CIA director, Tom Cotton will prioritize partisan concerns over any truth he learns from the intel community.
Prosecutors stated Flynn was directed to engage the Russians on 12/29/16 by donald’s national security transition team.
Senator Tom Cotton was on that team.
The same Tom Cotton who rabidly defended Mike Flynn.
The same Tom Cotton about to be nominated as CIA Director.
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ToTok is owned by UAE and they use it to spy on you.
TikTok is owned by China and they use it to spy on you.
FaceApp is owned by Russia and they use it to spy on you.
There's a pattern here.
ToTok, a messaging app that as of last week was one of the most popular in the Apple and Google stores, is billed as a secure way to chat by video/text message with friends/family
But it turns out that it's actually a spying tool for Emirati intelligence
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@realAndrewJose
@joelw_762
@ichbinilya
@Harpers
What about looking beyond Ukraine to the implications for future behavior of international actors? Can you explain how a Russian victory would only affect Ukraine?
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This is just as plausible if you replace RNC and Trump with United Russia and Putin.
No,
@GOP
, we don't want to model our politics after Russia.
The Republican National Committee will follow President Trump’s lead and re-engage in the Alabama Senate race. Sr RNC official said, “the RNC is the political arm of the president and we support the president.” RNC will transfer money to the Alabama GOP,
@rebeccagberg
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@iamyesyouareno
What's the question? This is sufficiently labeled for you to know this is Nigerian Pidgin, not English.
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No political event is ever the center of thought for anything. Never confuse politics, pep rallies, or anything based on emotion, with real thought.
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@jamieleecurtis
No stop, please. You're discrediting the *legitimate* criticisms of Trump. Even educated Never Trumper aren't saying this. Please stop.
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Wreckage of World War II aircraft carrier USS Hornet discovered
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In this short, clear clip,
@Kasparov63
explains how granting moral equivalence to a moral inferior is not only wrong, but in the case of Russia, is a crucial, deliberate component of what the Kremlin's massive global propaganda machine hopes to accomplish.
What's at stake when we let Putin claim moral equivalence with the free world? Good time to revisit this conversation with
@Kasparov63
from May:
Full video/podcast:
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@nealjclark1
@abbythelibb_
Abby made a substantive critique of your position and you responded with insults. Of the two of you, she's not the one displaying signs of arrested development.
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This is truly a closed information eco-system. It's a feedback loop with no checks or brakes, conducive not to free discourse, but only to strengthening existing opinions without scrutiny.
Fox News (on at my gym) just showed Trump's tweets quoting...a guy who was just on Fox News. And now they're analyzing it.
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@KevinMKruse
@JKamler
Is no Democrat the slightest bit uncomfortable with "they'll have to pass it to find out what's in it"?
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@realAndrewJose
@joelw_762
@ichbinilya
@Harpers
And these implications should be allowed to proceed unhindered until they *do* threaten more vital interests?
It's better to stop an enemy when he is far from your lands. This is called strategic depth.
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@RealCandaceO
Imagine thinking that being strong means yelling. I grew out of that in middle school.
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@LincolnJA99
@Boenau
Thanks for being honest. This is terrible and you are wrong to be this way.
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Most Requests to Remove Online Content Come From Russia, Google Says:
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And this has been a direct primary objective of Kremlin counterintelligence for precisely the same amount of time.
#notacoincidence
RE-UP ===> Trump's Kremlin ties are unraveling the Western spy alliance that has won wars & kept peace for 75 years.
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Do the same in the US.
The liberal Renew Europe group in the European Parliament is pushing for Europeans who sit on the boards of major Russian companies, including former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, to be added to the EU's Russia sanctions list.
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Wow
@youtube
, this is an easy call. Please fix this.
What the hell
@YouTube
? It's the third day of Russian full-fledged war against Ukraine & your platform offers Ukrainians this explicitly propaganda content as recommended??? We demand to withdraw moderation of UA segment of YouTube from Russia *immediately*!
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Mike Waller has been recounting in detail the moment the US became legally blind, as it were, to Russian disinformation.
Strobe Talbott worked w/Kremlin to change US laws in 1993, then pushed HR3000 on Congress, giving no time for debate. Enacted w/in 4 months.
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Posting an image of a mushroom cloud is not meant to encourage a dispassionate discussion. Maybe we should be posting more images of Ukrainians tortured by Russian occupation?
Putin is evil. And he has nukes. So let’s not go to war with him—either directly or through a proxy—if we can possibly avoid it. We can.
#NotOurWar
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@shonkywonk1
@iamyesyouareno
It says "Nigeria" at the top: It's Nigerian Pidgin, not Hawaiian.
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@ZadolfZitler
@iamyesyouareno
Ebonics is African American Vernacular English; this is Nigerian Pidgin. Are we supposed to pretend pidgins and dialects don't or shouldn't exist?
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@Girls_n_Guns
@iamyesyouareno
Nigerian Pidgin is a real language that is based on English but is not English. Lots of people speak it, and it's useful and good that BBC has a Pidgin division.
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@Scaramucci
The behavior people hate is the actual behavior, whether it was meant to be public or not. The fact she didn't think people would hear about it doesn't make her "world class".
Integrity is doing the right thing even when you think no one is watching.
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@DavidSacks
@benshapiro
"Risking WW3" is scaremongering rhetoric, but it doesn't even try to ask whether supporting Ukraine is right or wrong; it pushes that necessary conversation aside to focus on one theoretical consequence.
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According to FBI files, former Putin propagandist Mikhail Lesin died from being so drunk he fell and suffered "blunt force injuries to his head ... neck, torso, upper extremities, and lower extremities".
From a great height? Nope, in a hotel room.
FBI Releases Files Into Death Of Former Russian Press Minister Lesin
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@IlvesToomas
@hdevreij
The UN definition doesn't have a quantity condition: only that people of a group (as a whole OR in part) be targeted for no other reason than they are part of that group.
If you invade Ukraine and kill its people b/c they're Ukrainian, that seems to fit.
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One thing I love about Anglo-Saxon art is how much artists took inspiration from other media. There are MS illuminations that mimic the designs of metalwork; metalwork etched with poetry; poems that describe stonework & jewelry; stone crosses carved with lines of poems, etc.
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@nealjclark1
@Dux_Navis
You've used the phrases "stunted" and "arrested development" to describe the whole class of people who appreciate scifi. But using insults and making vast generalizations to shore up your own position is practically the definition of emotional immaturity.
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@mfa_russia
You're not exactly an objective voice on what counts as any country's sovereign territory.
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@bj116
@Theholisticpsyc
"instead of slowing down to deal with our childhood wounds and neglect." So you *do* acknowledge the mental health issues behind emotional immaturity. Good to see.
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As others increase, the US decreases.
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@ProChoiceOH
Wait, even if they're chosen?? So you're not pro-choice, you literally just hate babies.
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This is the most historic tweet about history ever tweeted by someone named Kevin on a Monday afternoon when -- oh, I see it now.
On behalf of all historians: If your claim that an event is "historic" requires more qualifiers than the runup to the World Cup, just stop.
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“Top security folks in all the Baltic states now plainly call the Republican nominee 'the Kremlin’s man'.”
"Either Trump is clueless about Ukraine...Or he is consciously parroting Kremlin propaganda. There's no 3rd choice."
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@KevinRobertsTX
Russia has been striking Ukrainian territory way more than Ukraine has struck Russia. Who's really escalating here?
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Apparently a political party exists to serve the strong man at the top, not the members whose political interests it is organized to represent, or the values and ideals they have committed to advance.
The Republican National Committee will follow President Trump’s lead and re-engage in the Alabama Senate race. Sr RNC official said, “the RNC is the political arm of the president and we support the president.” RNC will transfer money to the Alabama GOP,
@rebeccagberg
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@phoenix_hawk
@DanielJ72259795
@senatorshoshana
@benshapiro
What people don't get is that the borders of
@senatorshoshana
's district go through every human heart.
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@nealjclark1
@Dux_Navis
Anything I say you'll just say it's for kids, b/c you've already decided it's all for kids. But you're the one that made the assertion, it's up to you demonstrate it. What criteria did you use? What's your definition of YA lit that excludes all grownup lit but includes all scifi?
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@dixiehellcat
@TheRickWilson
{refresh}{refresh}{refresh}{refresh}{refresh}{refresh}{refresh} …
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@mr_shaker1
@fatherhoodninja
The socially awkward stereotype of homeschoolers is still around? Where have you been? You can be socially awkward without being homeschooled, and if you're NOT socially awkward, being homeschooled doesn't make you so.
I know this is Twitter, but try to move beyond stereotypes.
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@rochelleriley
I mean, other than the basic shape of an X, how are these two things alike?
This shape is used in all sorts of non-Nazi ways. Maybe you think Scotland is Nazi? Or the UK? Or the symbol that closes applications …
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Are you kidding me? A Super Bowl tied up with less than a minute? Nice.
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@Andrewnsnyder
Awesome. Until yesterday I thought Perelanda was his best fiction, but yesterday I started Till We Have Faces and it's piercing my heart.
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@Fox999Steampunk
@iamyesyouareno
How do you think languages develop?
This is a real language b/c many people speak it. Why is there a problem with this?
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@BacchusFan
@20committee
Wait ... don't we want Trump's supporters to stop supporting him?? Why shouldn't we support such converts?
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I love this so much. While Americans are panic-buying toilet paper, Estonians are rushing to their libraries for all the Dostoyevsky they can find.
That's how you handle a crisis. Focus on the higher things.
Closing time at Tallinn Central Library: a line of people panic-borrowing. More than half of Dostoevsky is already gone, so I cannot choose between different translations, but have to take what’s left.
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@historyinmemes
protein, wine, coffee, protein, wine, coffee, protein, lemon juice, wine, coffee. No carbs.
Sounds like a recipe for acid reflux and an ulcer.
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@morticia_esq
@wylfcen
@sadderlizards
The moon was masculine b/c the language was patriarchal … but the sun was feminine. And in Romance languages, they were reversed: masculine sun, feminine moon.
Maybe you don't actually know languages as well as you make it seem when you yell at people for offering facts.
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@Richardhellion
@JasonSCampbell
No, this actually directly contradicts the anti-abortion argument that all life is precious and worth something regardless of what it "does".
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@nealjclark1
@Dux_Navis
Sorry man, I don’t know why you’re not answering my question, but I’ll come back here and start responding again when you do.
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@ColeEW8
@iamyesyouareno
The professor speaks English.
This article is translated into Pidgin, one of many languages BBC publishes in, b/c it's one of the many languages of its huge global audience. If they'd translated it into Hausa or French, would people still have a problem?
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@RadioFreeTom
One Trumper friend of mine commented that ALL his never-Trumper friends were quiet today.
He's Catholic, so I reminded him what day it was.
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@dantetripp
Why do you doubt this?
"Considered one of the greatest films ever made, Jaws was the prototypical summer blockbuster, regarded as a watershed moment in motion picture history … It was the highest-grossing film until the release of Star Wars in 1977."
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@Watchingeyeball
@b_ofrights
@vShockAndAwev
@20committee
@TheRickWilson
@TrueFactsStated
@LouiseMensch
There is a long tradition of the Russians doing this with groups just like BLM.
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@Toddrobby11
@Evan_McMullin
@CheriJacobus
@jimsciutto
@realDonaldTrump
@wikileaks
Relevant? You have 28 followers.
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@Mortis_Banned
For all those still liking this tweet ... it's definitely been picked up by English -language sites:
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@HarkRebSpiceWar
@iamyesyouareno
You know, lots of people who speak Nigerian Pidgin also speak English. Speaking an English-based Pidgin doesn't mean you're not smart or can't speak English. Sheesh.
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@realAndrewJose
@joelw_762
@ichbinilya
@Harpers
Ukraine *did* have their own nuclear deterrence, but it agreed to give it up after both the US *and Russia* promised to defend Ukraine's territorial integrity.
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@classicallyabby
You didn't reference it. You made no reference to that tweet at all. Maybe you were *thinking* about it when you tweeted today, but it was a standalone tweet, the reactions to it were reasonable.
Beyond that, sometimes actors get popular. Don't worry; it never lasts.
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@davidchapman141
"Cool" is something that matters in high school. Maybe it's time to grow up and find a better metric.
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@nealjclark1
@Dux_Navis
Lots of examples have been offered. I agree with most of them. But what i really care about is understanding your reasoning. What are your criteria?
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@realAndrewJose
@joelw_762
@ichbinilya
@Harpers
The existence of the Ukrainian nation is not as important as the *right* of nations to exist—conceding this right for Ukraine weakens that right for all. This right is a longstanding American principle and in our interest to defend.
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#Snowden
says Russian intel just let him live in Russia w/o getting something in return;
@20committee
be like:
http://t.co/KUk0chwBah
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Because Russia & the US are just the same. Another Kremlin talking point brought to you by Jill Stein.
In Russia, establishment parties swept parliament largely because the media ignores or marginalizes opposition parties. Sound familiar?
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@BrendonCassidy
@20committee
Why, b/c Conyers is a Democrat? If Dems can't out the Kremlin dupes in their own ranks, how can they demand Republicans do the same?
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@The_Weed_Shop
@LauraLoomer
She didn't say he can't defend himself *in court*. Gag orders are about talking to the media.
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@b_ofrights
@Watchingeyeball
@RustyShack
@vShockAndAwev
@20committee
@TheRickWilson
@TrueFactsStated
@LouiseMensch
And Absolut Russia corrupts absolutly ... ;-)
(Sorry, I had to.)
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The Baltics are a living refutation of communism & Russian rule. Their success is inherently in America's interest.
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@MercilessLocien
@iamyesyouareno
Nigerian Pidgin is a real language—based on English but not English—that lots of people speak, often in addition to English.
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WW2 is at the core of Russian messaging today. Never stop reminding them: They were the only Ally to start the war as a Nazi ally.
Nazis & Soviets held a joint parade to celebrate their brutal occupation of Poland
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It always comes back to WW2 for Russia. Just not the part where they allied with Hitler.
#Russia
's gov't-sponsored Vesti ludicrously compares civilian casualties in Aleppo to WWII bombing of Dresden, saying U.S. & UK killed more.
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@mdhelfenbein
@TheRickWilson
Surely the closer the FBI digs into Manafort, the more he is in danger.
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