#Myth

1)This Raskin fellow is rambling infuriating falsehoods. Trump hindered free speech?? As always, the Left gets it BACKWARDS.Whether one agrees with Trump on fraud (and millions who voted for him
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Biggest myth is that Treasuries ever existed in a true free market.1. Pre-1913: Tsy monetized debt with National Bank Notes.2. 40s: Fed pinned Treasury rates, of all maturities, until 1951.https://twitter.com/lisaabramowicz1/status/13495015
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Did we just hit peak oil? Today I went deep on how the future of energy snuck up on us in 2020: 11 charts, 3500 words, 9 photos. You should
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Latest ONS deaths data (to week ending 6 November) has been released.1,481 more deaths were recorded in-week compared to the 5-year average.Year to date there have been 13% more deaths
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We have a problem with fake history, folks. And it isnโ€™t just internet idiots pushing false narratives. Sometimes itโ€™s opinion columnists too. Beyond remedial training for overconfident partisan journalists, Iโ€™ve
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Authoritarian brutality will not save us. Dictatorship only deepens society's problems. Yet the myth of authoritarian efficiency persists. People keep falling for it. https://europeanmoments.com/opinions/eupinions Dictatorships are not
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Days ago I read a tweet by a Black woman and I've been thinking about it ever since. Wish I could remember her name to give her credit but essentially
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The reason I like looking at the history of the Third Republic rather than 'Weimar' is that its a country with a much older and ingrained Republican and liberal tradition
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1. Tweetstorm on the Heather Mac Donald (@HMDatMI) op-ed being widely cited by critics of #BlackLivesMatter . At a @UChicagoLaw webinar, I referred dismissively to her yearslong campaign to debunk
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I like The Rise Of Skywalker for what it is but still miss what it could have been. I love Rey Skywalker but still prefer Rey Nobody. I donโ€™t think
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The Honest Elections Project, seemed to emerge out of nowhere a few months ago and started stoking fears about voter fraud. Backed by a dark money group funded by rightwing
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There are a bunch of ways people talk about attempts to eradicate trans people as if they were isomorphic to attempts to eradicate ethnic and cultural groups and I hold
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Sunday thoughts:I've had an untold number of abusive bosses over the years (I speak primarily of before I became a screenwriter.)A large number. Same is true of teachers, instructors and
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โ€” but how can you worship your god? zeus cheated on his wife repeatedly? hades kidnapped persephone? and many others?well, this is where the argument of myth vs mythos
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One-Size-Fits-All Translation is a Myth: A Thread (/8) A common thing we face as localizers is the question of why certain words or phrases are translated differently at different points
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Fifty years ago today troops loyal to General Idi Amin overthrew Milton Obote's govt and inaugurated the Second Republic of Uganda.Here's Amin taking the oath of office at the airstrip
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