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Before making a moral judgment about a politician we *don't support* during this election cycle we all need to ask ourselves what judgment we would make if the politician was one we *do support*
Nobody is immune from confirmation bias.

Doubly so on Twitter, which encourages pack behaviour
Five weeks to go and I'm already sick of "at least he's *our* racist"-type arguments (though they are never expressed that way explicitly)
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Adam Wagner
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This is so well done
It's also thoughtful and interesting! Really great political communication from @PeoplesMomentum who along with the Leave campaign (unfortunately) are the best in the business
@PeoplesMomentum First minute I'm thinking BUT BATMAN IS THE HERO
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Adam Wagner
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Two things which I am not sure about re a Lib/Lab 'remain' alliance:
1. Lab are a 2nd Ref party but *not* a remain party. They have no policy to support remain. Though their policies make remain more likely
2. Swinson has said Corbyn isn't fit to be PM and she won't prop up
I totally understand why a Lib-Lab pact would be best for the remain cause, as in combination those two parties make remain more likely. I just don't understand it from the Lib perspective, particularly if they won't have coalition with Corbyn-led Labour in any event.
It's all very well to say to the Libs 'stop being so selfish and get with the remain programme' but given Labour is neutral on Brexit, not remain, + Corbyn, there are some decent principle objections in response.
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Quick thoughts on this - bearing in mind it is already pretty confused in the Telegraph article and the manifesto hasn't been published so this could be a balloon being sent up.

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This relates to regular noises in recent years suggesting that soldiers should be protected from prosecution for offences going back more than, say, 10 years.

The direct targets are potential war crimes in Iraq/Afghanistan and illegal acts during the Troubles e.g. Bloody Sunday
There is a separate issue, relating to Human Rights Act. The Telegraph splash is confused - soldiers can't be prosecuted under the Human Rights Act, it doesn't work like that.

This is about investigations of historic allegations, e.g. ones which happened more 10+ years ago.
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Heather Scoffield of the Toronto Star wrote a bit on what the Conservative, NDP and the Liberals would be focused on. It prompted me to write my own thoughts.
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Before Zuckerberg's first hearing in the Senate today, some comments on his prepared testimony.

It is critical that Senators and Representatives use these hearings to ask questions that will gain info to shape solutions (such as those attached here) /1

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- it is overly focused on Kogan/Cambridge Analytica as malign actors and not on the widespread use of data-harvesting enabled by the platform.
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