Alessandro
@polisisti
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Mostly silly tweets. Occasional serious tweets on public policy (in 🇨🇦 or abroad), humanities, classical music, altruism effective and ineffective.
Toronto-adjacent
Joined August 2013
RT @jt_kerwin: The world’s triumph over AIDS puts a new spin on the foreign aid debate. This would not have happened without the generosity…
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@JohnPasalis When you talk about "Canadian conservatives", you're talking about random people on social media, right? I haven't seen anyone in the Conservative party obsequiously courting Trump
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@MattBruenig @besttrousers @dylanmatt ha, fair enough! That part of my memory may be something I added to it. Matt, is there a place where you've talked about this at greater length? In the past couple of weeks, it's seemed like an (unfortunately) important take
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@CultySmother ok but to be serious for a moment, if you focus on its poetic features such as internal rhyme and enjambment, it's quite easy to see at least *some* of the appeal. Anything famous by Eminem, or this song by Common might be a good entry point
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@ThothCatalog It was very well publicized! I'm just as baffled as you. Was this a Gen Z group, or our age?
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RT @jm_mcgrath: really can't overstate how nuts it is that "Canada sells the US lots of oil" is being cast as sinister somehow
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@ThothCatalog absolutely. One of my friends was super into it, and even independently of him I'd heard of it
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RT @1800ghostman: Every day we acquire new evidence that we should blow up the NDP at every level of government and start over
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some really vile shit in the replies to Pradyumna (with whom I agree)
Rare politics post from me but, I'm absolutely disgusted on how many people on this site whom I had previously respected support explicit racism against ethnic groups, even at the highest levels of their government
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@roadto100bagger @PradyuPrasad Non-Indians say anti-Indian things to each other that you may not be seeing. I know this because I am not Indian and have heard such sentiment IRL (I live near Toronto). That you may not be seeing it doesn't mean the resentment isn't there.
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@wrongbutkind Go for a nice walk / drive, or do something fun with the wife or kids that you don't often get to do :)
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@ellulie_ Ford has extreme customer service mindset. He genuinely tries to understand if lots of people are mad about something and tries to do something about it, quickly. People believe he *cares* about their money. He also has no ideology that alienates broad swathes of the electorate
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