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Cummings on Brexit and memory: "Even if people do not think this at the start they rapidly construct psychologically appealing stories that overwrite memories" dominiccummings.com/2017/01/09/on-…
"I also kept no diary so I have no clear source for what I really thought other than some notes...I already know from talking to people that my lousy memory has conflated episodes, tried to impose patterns that did not actually exist and so on—all the usual psychological issues"
"People in my position often see victory as confirmation of ideas they had before victory but people often win for reasons they never understand or even despite their own efforts" dominiccummings.com/2017/01/09/on-…
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Shadi Hamid
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Out of all the Democratic candidates Bloomberg was the only one who said that normal relations with China should *not* be contingent on "closing its internment camps for Uighurs and other Muslim minority groups"

nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Bloomberg is the only Democratic candidate who seems—like Trump—to have a soft spot for the worst authoritarian regimes. He refused, for example, to call Chinese leader Xi Jinping a "dictator"

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Much has been written about Bloomberg's pretty bad record on domestic issues, but his foreign policy views are also legitimately frightening and completely contrary to everything the Democratic Party is supposed to stand for
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Shadi Hamid
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Important read from @jacksondiehl on how there's a lot to like in Bernie's foreign policy for anyone who cares about supporting democracy and living up to our values abroad

washingtonpost.com/opinions/globa…
Diehl on Bernie:

"What emerges is a politician strongly shaped by his opposition to U.S. military interventions abroad, but also by a conviction that the United States should do what it can to support democracy and resist authoritarianism"
As I've argued before, there should be a way to combine opposition to the militarization of US foreign policy *with* support for democracy in the Middle East, since democracy promotion (at least before Bush) wasn't seen as something that relied on military action
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Shadi Hamid
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"The future was better yesterday."

The first line from Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes' new book The Light That Failed

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Krastev on post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe:

"Having initially cheered the ‘return’ to normality, some of the leading dissidents ended up disillusioned by the monotony of post-heroic times"
Krastev on Orban: He "fell in love with freedom but ended up enthralled with his own absolute power"
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Josiah Mortimer
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Cummings' new job ad says: "We want to hire some VERY clever young people either straight out of university or recently out with with extreme curiosity and capacity for hard work."

Almost certainly age discrimination and in breach of civil service code
dominiccummings.com/2020/01/02/two…
Here's ACAS' (a key regulator in this area) advice on age discrimination #Cummings
*Civil service guidelines, not code.

Pretty hairy when it comes to the Equality Act too
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⚢🌸Sakura No Seirei🌸🏳️‍⚧️
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Good morning and welcome to another #Brexit thread

I'll be attempting to cover the events that are happening both in the Commons and in the Lords today so this is going to be a long one

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So first things first, hello to all my new followers and here's a quick breakdown of what's happening today, and a quick precis of how business in each House is carried out and why really arcane things seem to happen that bear little-to-no relationship to reality

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What's expected for today?

In the Lords the Opposition and Crossbench peers have laid a motion that will allow them the time to scrutinise the Bill that's about to be debated in the Commons. They want to debate this Bill on Friday at the latest. More on that later

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Lord Snoutintrough #FBPE #ultraremainer
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I am proud to present the Ladybird book of FAKE NEWS part of the key #Brexit concepts series
#Brexit Britain is a land of Propaganda Plenty on TV radio on billboards on buses and on the Internet it is all around us
Living in this cornucopia of cobblers has helped make the people of this septic Isle some of the most misinformed in the world world
In global Britain we receive not only British made up news but made up shite from far flung places like Russia and Iran here a Russian troll farm puts out a continuous pro #Brexit shite troll farms have helped make the UK the funny farm of the world
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Really sorry of you aren’t interested in Brexit but, well me, my friends and family have to live it and things are getting pretty fluid right now, so I wanted to pull some facts together about Facebook and the referendum that are worth bearing in mind. Thread! 👇
People like @Anna_Soubry and @ChukaUmunna have been making a good case for @peoplesvote_uk based on the idea that in the original ref people didn’t know what kind of Brexit they were voting for. This makes sense because some people voted leave expecting to stay in SM etc 1/
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#brexit, #language, #mathematics, #pseudoscience, #rhetoric, #style

Brand-new and remarkable: #today, in a speech before #industry-representatives, chancellor Angela #Merkel used an old-fashioned, and,I think, INAPPROPRIATE,mathematical term to describe the #Brexit discussions..
.. in the #UK.

On 20180925, 9:50 CET, (cf. bdi.eu/der-bdi/termin…), chancellor Merkel said the following: "Wesentlich hängt es natürlich auch davon ab, was Großbritannien denn wirklich möchte. Auch da ist ja die Diskussion nicht so ganz eineindeutig [sic],
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