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@SethAndrewsTTA

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This gives me no pleasure, but given Elon Musk's history, claims, and behaviors, I can't let Richard's "welfare of the world at heart" line pass without comment. While watching Elon's rise to greater power (and the fawning of his fans), I started keeping notes. Thread (1) <span class="quote-card" d...

@DanielvsBabylon

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You are royalty and it's long been time since you should've begun to act like it. Though unlike mortal royals, which are not, and present themselves to show forth the fruits of corruptible and worthless material conquests; we clothe ourselves in meekness and humility by putting on Christ who in con...

@jimstewartson

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Elon Musk is not just a “Nazi.” Elon Musk’s psychology is comparable to neo-Nazi mass murderers Anders Breivik, Brenton Tarrant, Patrick Crusius and Dylann Roof. He is a mentally ill, emotionally broken teenage boy committing mass violence in order to make the world safe for white people. He won’t...

@NAChristakis

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Elite colleges are now reaping the consequences of promoting a pedagogy that trashed the postwar ideal of the liberal university, George Packer writes in @TheAtlantic: “A university is a community, but it is a community of a special kind -- a community devoted to inquiry. It exists so that its memb...

@NonsensicalNemo

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🧵 THREAD: Trump, Epstein, and the Scandal That Won’t Die ...

@CDNPolicyHawk

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Canada’s 4 existing submarines are all over 30 years old and in need of replacement. While some comments from the (former) PM implied nuclear powered (SSN) submarines were a replacement option, it’s been confirmed only non-nuclear (SSK) boats are being considered. Why is this?🧵 ...

@dr_jump_uk

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Myths of S&amp;C: Part 2 Misunderstanding the force-velocity relationship. Although almost all S&amp;C coaches know Newton's second law (F=ma), our intention tends to be more Aristotelian. ...

@America_2100

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In 1986, George Soros traveled to Beijing to launch an NGO. Within two years, Chinese spies controlled the entire organization. It was a test run. Chinese spies used the "Soros Incident"—their words—as a model to build a vast espionage machine in America. It gets crazier. 🧵 ...