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@NepCorres

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𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐏𝐌 𝐒𝐔𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐃: 𝐔𝐒 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐥 US Deep state likely behind the game to counter Chinese dominance in #Myanmar &amp; Thailand. Its an overall alert for India's dominance in #BayofBengal. Thread 1/8 <span class="quote-card" data-quote-index="0"></span>...

@_bonaventurian

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📄The 'prescriptive acceleration' from Marx, one ought support free trade to create conditions for revolution is naive consequentialism. Land rightly flipped this to 'descriptive': acceleration: the process of fragmentation. Proclus: death is a reduction of a thing to its parts...

@nfergus

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'The phrase “luxury beliefs” was coined by the brilliant @robkhenderson to sum up the more preposterous ideas that progressives can afford to hold — “Defund the police!” “Open borders!” “Men can become women!” — because they are largely sheltered from the consequences when such ideas are put into p...

@DisinfoLab

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A sudden rise in Terror attacks in #Kashmir by 'new age' terror fronts calling themselves 'resistance'! Who are they, who is behind them, and above all, who are the new masters of narrative? #August5 #Article370 A THREAD: ...

@Holden_Culotta

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President Trump just exposed Arthur Schlesinger’s full 15-page memo calling for JFK to break up the CIA in 1961. Schlesinger called the CIA a rogue “state within a state.” “No one knows how many potential problems … are being created by CIA clandestine operations.” 🧵THREAD ...

@JaipurDialogues

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On May 19th, one of the most controversial figures of Modern India, Nathuram Godse, was born. Some rally that he was right. Others say he was fatally wrong. But this is his final statement—unedited, unapologetic. A window into his mind and why he did what he did. It is upto you to decide! Thread...

@BretDevereaux

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How exactly diversity is strength: a 🧵. The ideology of xenophobic extremism in the USA is back in the discourse for terrible reasons and I want to address one part of it - the idea that diversity is weakness - from the perspective of a military historian. 1/...