#Fundamentally

Per Bylund

PerBylund

#Intellectualproperty--patents, copyrights, and other government-granted and -enforced monopoly privileges--gets a lot of knee-jerk support. While people invent plenty of arguments in favor, they are, unfortunately, often based in economic

Damon Evans

damocrat

Listening to @mrjamesob today, he asked the question: “What have Harry & Meghan done wrong?”Watched a load of videos of her and concluded: it’s not about what they’ve done wrong,

Tanvi Madan

tanvi_madan

I've seen a no. of suggestions that China & India will go back to normal. This is not a viable option:- crisis makes clear agmts they put in place over

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JRROwens

It’s very hard sometimes b/c I’ve spent an huge amount of my life fighting for LGBTQ rights — probably more than any other single political issue — so I have

The Political Patient

public_patient

I have a lot of complicated feelings about what happened in the primary. I feel frustrated and deeply sad. I no longer feel like I belong to any kind of

A.R. Buckle

JuliusGoat

So these would be concentration camps.Keep telling me it's not Nazism.https://twitter.com/BrianKarem/status/1058094174229147649 This is what you can expect to see, when a society has determined that human beings owe nothing to

Tutul Rahman

tutulismyname

How is a team like LAFC ($750m) valued five times more than a team like Sheffield United ($150m) even though Sheffield has much better players in a better league?Good question,

Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥

senatorshoshana

Book thread for Yuval Levin's new book, https://amzn.to/2TvZxsi @NationalAffairs Brilliant and worth the read, and I'm only 1/5 done. IMO, he correctly diagnoses today's hard to decipher ill - failing

Tanya X. Short

tanyaxshort

Envy is a real problem, bc it can not only make you feel like crap, it can also prevent you from collaborating and supporting others, or even destroy relationships! So

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ChristusSanat

Thread"Grocery stores are open, pharmacies are open, why not churches???"I agree fundamentally. We should be able to have them open, but I have seen no church that has gone the

Shahe DH

ShaheDH1671

What luck I'm 2 for 2 on being forced to vote for the political equivalent of stale wonderbread because a bunch of old fucks can't pull their collective heads out

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hayjanharisa

Here's a thread, written while ago, hadn't published. Relevant now bc overemphasis of *liberal* identity politics on representation rather than material change, was *factor* in another temaNote that this's as

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

I know he seems like the Teflon President, who can do or say anything and slide past it.I think the disinfectant comments will do him in. He'll never live it

Ben Casselman

bencasselman

The U.S. is facing a tidal wave of small business failures this fall if the federal government doesn’t provide a new round of financial assistance.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/01/business/economy/small-businesses-coronavirus.html?refer

Dr. Lindsay Stallones Marshall

lindstorian

Really bizarre that this happened on the same day that @TIME published the @obwax piece I consulted on about how this exact political anxiety is a predictable cycle in the

M_Methuselah

M_Methuselah

Something I don't understand about the "freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences" argument is that it's an extreme form of argument in favor of the wisdom/efficacy of a