Crispin Rovere @crispinrovere Twitter profile

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6 years

@queenozymandias @ebruenig Just remind them that the Swiss Guard protect the Pope. It will calm everyone down. x.

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8 years

David Bowie Alan Rickman Prince Leonard Cohen George Michael Whole damn Red Army Choir You better be f**king stable Carrie Fisher! #2016

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@belleeamie @ianbremmer Yes, and that's serious, but we need to put in perspective. Australia's homicide rate is now 1/100,000, and 2/3rd's of murder victims are male. That means 1/300,000 women are murder victims, of which most but not all are domestic violence victims. It's a statistic worth praising

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#SteveSmith shamed himself, his team, the sport, and Australia. His statement that he won't resign adds to the disgrace. Well @stevesmith49 , I'll not be watching #cricket , buying merchandise, or contributing in any way so long as you're still playing. #cheating #CameronBancroft

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@oceanatoll @DanaSchwartzzz True, but also I think some women in my life would benefit from doing less.

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5 years

@axios Epic @jonathanvswan . Takes a special reporting talent to maintain access but still grind away with these hard-hitting questions.

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7 years

@rianjohnson @sparkie237 Actually that's pretty insulting... The complaint isn't that you innovated, it's that you made a terrible movie with an incoherent story.

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@kylegriffin1 Gee, he's only a lifelong soldier who never married... but yea, I guess he hates the troops. 😑😒

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6 years

@JoeNBC And your apology is, what, lost in the mail?

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6 years

I remember the days when @Joe_Hildebrand was a comedian making jokes at my expense, but over the past year or so he's emerged the most thoughtful centrist commentator in the Australian political landscape: #auspol

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6 years

This is most extraordinary thread that I've ever seen on Twitter. The @nytimes shames itself, their readers and all journalists. @Twitter must also explain why @sarahjeong was allowed to spew racist hate speech on their platform for so many years.

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6 years

@VirginAustralia Did seriously no-one think for 5 seconds before announcing it in the first place? This is a real Knights and Dames moment for your airline.

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5 years

@thebettinaarndt I'm generally sympathetic to you when it comes to the outrage mobs, but... what. The man killed savagely murdered those who his sole duty in life was to protect. You actually shame all men with the comment of 'keeping an open mind' about this.

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@SamHarrisOrg I do... I pay for @Quillette

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3 years

@ZubyMusic I would expect this is mostly due to Africa having a very young population.

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9 years

*BREAKING* Abbott Govt refuses direct order by Senate to release its fee modelling for $100k degrees to Parl. #auspol http://t.co/F634qa4Gya

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5 years

@ProfNoto "Let's assume I am staying on this platform."

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6 years

@drvox @paulwaldman1 Wow. Huge thread. And yet still manages to be completely wrong on nearly every conceivable point. Newsflash: Trump voters have access to the same technology and information sources as you do.

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7 years

@Cirincione Which is why you'll never convince anyone of anything who isn't already a devoted convert.

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5 years

@CricketAus Oh CricketAus, why you hate science?

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7 years

@jamestaranto Better still. Name Constantinople the capital of Byzantium.

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6 years

@crikey_news People respect Paul Keating because he married fairness with growth. He floated the dollar and liberalised interest rates - but there was also medicare and compulsory superannuation. Keating is an Australian hero.

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@PatsKarvelas Australia is the least racist of all countries, of any time, in the entire history of the world.

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6 years

This #AI literally provided me with this inspirational quote: @TheInspiroBot #Dystopia

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5 years

@mtracey But they aren't running against Bernie, Trump is, and he does know.

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5 years

@Gillette @dariustwin Its over Gillette. Thank you for being such a useful warning to others.

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6 years

@AlishaGrauso Fear not. The Last Jedi was one of the worst films in modern history. Infinity War was actually good(ish).

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9 years

Why Labor should leave illegal wars to the Coalition, and notsupport bombing Syria: http://t.co/0a7UOcWiF6 #auspol http://t.co/xJYfAsp60j

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6 years

@RealJamesWoods Hi James, seen this epic response ad from @EgardWatchCo ? @RealJamesWoods

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6 years

@nytimes It's so confusing. Does 1/1024 mean @SenWarren is still White according to your racist editorial board member #SarahJeong .

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5 years

☹️. When I was doing my honours thesis Tim Fischer let me shadow him at the Australian Embassy at the Holy See. We talked at length about his many trips to Bhutan. I hope he's comfortable. He's a towering figure and a true gentleman. #auspol

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Tim Fischer: former Nationals leader and deputy PM ‘gravely ill’

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@TulsiGabbard @EfraTeranEC So did I. Back in 2011 I was fired when I published a piece arguing that the Libya intervention would prove a disaster.

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6 years

@TitaniaMcGrath I love Titiana, but it's actually kind of difficult to make this one funny.

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9 years

Why its #Abbotts warmongering in Syria is a bad idea: http://t.co/0a7UOcWiF6 #insiders http://t.co/oRgtEdIb8l

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8 years

"[Labor] is creaming the Government on substance." Laura Tingle on Chris Bowen's National Press Club adress: #auspol

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5 years

Great article @Joe_Hildebrand . Not sure Labor's learned anything yet though - that clearly remains to be seen. The radical left is strangling ALP branches, and I'm far from certain that a small thing like electoral oblivion will stand in their way. #auspol

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7 years

@annafifield Tweeted like someone who has never see historical model, ever. It's just history Anna, not a sandwich board promoting Mein Kampf.

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8 years

As a rabid byzantine history fan and admirer of Conversations, can't wait to rip through this! @abcconvos @rfidler

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7 years

@420institute1 @bradheath @theintercept So...when Obama said to the Russians "after the election I'll have more flexibility" that meant what, exactly?

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8 years

Census collects data criticial for policymakers, which is why the naked invasion of privacy is a horrendous own goal. @ABSCensus #CensusFail

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6 years

@RichardHaass @realDonaldTrump You thought American Foreign Policy was about morality before Trump? How have you managed to live this long?

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8 years

Accusations across the net that @twitter is suppressing #GaysforTrump while promoting #LGBTQHatesTrumpParty . Curious to hear their response.

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7 years

@washingtonpost @thegarance The world definitely knows that the @washingtonpost editorial board is waging a personal war on Trump.

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7 years

People are seriously misunderstanding Secretary of State Tillerson's remarks at the Atlantic Council. This is the quote people should be reading: @StateDept #NorthKorea

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6 years

@Partisangirl I think it is perfectly reasonable to be concerned about developments in other countries. It doesn't mean supporting regime change necessarily. But on that score I feel mixed... I am against it on principle, but last year inflation ran at 80,000% and the people are suffering.

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6 years

@Partisangirl But a lot of people currently living in Caracas really do not want to be.

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6 years

Whatever you're up to. Whatever is on your mind. Stop what you're doing and read this incredible article by Matthew Carney on China's AI dystopia:

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7 years

Translation: we won't use nuclear weapons unless we feel like it. #NorthKorea

Jonathan Cheng

@JChengWSJ

7 years

KCNA: "As a responsible, peace-loving nuclear power, the DPRK will never use nuclear weapons nor pose any nuclear threat as long as the aggression hostile forces do not encroach upon the sovereignty and interests of the country."

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6 years

@SamHarrisOrg I agree. But as a public intellectual you should apply more critical thinking skills than displayed with @joerogan . Those were embarrassing remarks made about Tulsi Gabbard that really showed why you never saw Trump coming.

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7 years

@MarkDiStef @JohnBarronUSA Like... when? Iraq?... sounds more like Americans telling us what we want to be told about ourselves - like 'punching above our weight'.

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9 years

@leighsales nice try, but your interview with Turnbull was cringe-worthy. It couldn't have been more flirtatious had you licked the pen.

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9 years

Malcolm Turnbull's personal approval rating has dropped **51 points** in five months! #newspoll #auspol #libspill

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7 years

Kurdish women risked sexual slavery to ally with us against Islamic State. The West has now abandoned them to wholesale slaughter by the Turks who are wiping them out under the gut-wrenching title "Operation Olive Branch":

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6 years

@RottenTomatoes Liars. That isn't what critics are saying. Goodbye Rotten Tomatoes - your credibility is completely shot.

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7 years

Why war with #NorthKorea is increasingly inevitable:

North Korea: The Inevitability of War

This July I outlined the case for war against North Korea, contingent on the failure of diplomacy and Kim Jong-Un's continued march towards a long-range nuclear ICBM capability. Six weeks on North Kor

www.realcleardefense.com

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5 years

Cannot overstate just how reassuring it is to read Joe's op-eds. He reminds me that a majority of people out there have some common sense, even if they don't often appear in the news or show up on the #qanda panel.

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7 years

@NewYorker I'm speechless. All I can say is that the @NewYorker has fallen a very long way since Hannah Arendt and the 'banality of evil'.

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Crispin Rovere

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7 years

Some people truly believe that if #NorthKorea conducts a long-range atmospheric nuclear test it'll be because of what American politicians say, rather than Pyongyang's long-standing publicly stated intention. 🤔

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7 years

What I find extraordinary is that those who proved the most cowardly in the face of the #NorthKorea threat are now the most critical of the President meeting KJU. The only reasonable conclusion is they hate Trump more than they want peace. I look forward to calling them out.

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7 years

@JackHoward Literally no one says they don't like The Last Jedi because it's different. They don't like it because it's an unwatchable unfinished tapestry of plot holes, continuity errors and inept writing and storytelling.

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Crispin Rovere

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6 years

Many people, even those who know me well, often wonder aloud what "side" I'm truly on. I've enjoyed that ambiguity. But China's Social Credit program places me firmly in #TeamAmerica . 20% of the world's population under an AI dystopia is a threat to all people everywhere.

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7 years

@RyanLizza Oh yea, and what was the instruction over at the @NewYorker ?

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6 years

During this incredibly trying time for outlets like @BuzzFeed and @HuffPost , I have finally decided to do my bit by subscribing to a media outlet for the first time..... To @Quillette !! Thank you @clairlemon for all that you do to promote free thought and critical thinking.

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7 years

If Twitter were around in the 1960s: "Cuba only wants nukes to defend itself. Deterrence will work." "Yea, and this blockade? Kennedy is going to get us all killed."

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@UNSEATpac @drvox @paulwaldman1 I can assure you... the coastal "bubble" is more powerful than what exists in the fly-over states. For instance - those voters supported Obama in both 08 and 12. -- It wasn't those in Michigan and Ohio who labelled opposition the "Basket of Deplorables".

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6 years

So North and South Korea are aligning timezones. Again, what matters is denuclearization. Everything else is window dressing. #Korea

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7 years

Don't discount the chances of a new Korean war | my response to @Robert_E_Kelly #NorthKorea #NorthKoreaNukes

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9 years

Dyson Hayden weighs up whether a 'reasonable person' could think him biased. Whole nation unreasonable. #turc #auspol http://t.co/nDotseE03t

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5 years

@clairlemon Also beauty is not subjective, the 'eye of the beholder' has long been debunked. Turns out that when it comes to attractiveness we all use the same eyes.

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@KyleKulinski No-one says too soon Kyle. No-one. They would prefer though that the incompetent withdrawal had occurred without the loss of American lives and tens of billions of dollars in advanced military equipment handed to the enemy.

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7 years

This is news but Idon't think this the breakthrough that it sounds. It's just proving that the US did absolutely everything possible to avoid the war that's coming.

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7 years

Tillerson on talks with DPRK: "We are ready to have the first meeting without precondition."

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7 years

This year, #NorthKorea 's regime will either take concrete steps to voluntarily de-nuclearize, or the U.S. will end the regime and de-nuclearize the peninsula themselves. Any other possibility is both unlikely and unworkable:

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8 years

Nikki Savva paying out on the entire Australian public for the election result. Glorious. #insiders

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7 years

On #NorthKorea , deterrence advocates come in two categories: 1) Those who grasp it and try (but fail) to develop a credible strategy. 2) Those who scream "deterrence" as proxy for appeasement. If you argue against strikes but don't know which category you're in, it's the latter.

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8 years

Have much respect for CIA officers, like Edward Price, who resign. None whatsoever for those who leak instead:

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6 years

And there I was thinking that the collapse of the Soviet Union, with the loss of a third of its territory and population, half the GDP, and the demise of Leninist Communism, was kind of a crippling blow.

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6 years

@Gillette @johnfkirby63 It would be helpful, Gillette, for you to show that you've listened, acknowledge the legitimate reasons people are so upset, and then apologise. Or perhaps you just don't get it. As is, please understand most men who see this ad will stop buying your products.

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Which more likely: Rape victim denied counselling and deported to avoid court scrutiny OR Woman uses her rape as machiavellian tool. #auspol

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. @TurnbullMalcolm shoots down a Republic. Begs the question, is there any value that man holds he hasn't sold for the PM's office? #auspol

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7 years

@joelw_762 @washingtonpost @thegarance unnamed sources, hearsay, opinion, and over what seems to be a trivial disclosure that would not have been reported when Obama was president

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5 years

@charliekirk11 @realDonaldTrump They'd all lie.

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5 years

@TulsiGabbard Just some feedback: Vrindavan should be tweeting from her own account. I see these tweets signed 'Tulsi's sister' and it just reminds me how skeet this whole outfit is. Stop doing it.

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7 years

Weapons sold to Ukraine. Increased NATO presence in the Baltic. Largest expulsion of Russian diplomats in U.S. history, for the sake of an ally. Can we >please< cease the pitiful epiphets about Trump being a Putin puppet?

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7 years

Serious people now favoring war with #NorthKorea 🇰🇵: - @POTUS - CIA Dir Pompeo - NatSec McMaster - UN Amb @NikkiHaley - US Army CoS Gen Milley - Sen @LindseyGrahamSC - @VP Pence (prob) Mixed: - SecDef Mattis - CoS Kelly Against: - SoS Tillerson Irrelevant people: - Academics

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8 years

A lot of stunned faces staring into phones as I walk the streets of the trendy parts of Melbourne. Wonder what's happening.

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8 years

@dmvzrn Feeling really sorry for this kid. Could just be a social commentary. Anyone actually see the presentation before this twitter onslaught?

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7 years

@EricLiptonNYT @davidfrum Buried deep in the article it says the company attacked isn't responsible for the voting machines- after implying for paras that it is.

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Crispin Rovere

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8 years

Hard for Australia to stick it's neck out on the South China Sea when the leader of a direct claimant (Philippines) is a lunatic.

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7 years

I'm sorry @Comey , but "classified" doesn't mean concealing malfeasance under your stewardship. If the relationship with the FISA court is damaged it's because agencies acted illegally to evade oversight and accountability. #Memo #MemoReleased #FISAMemo

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That’s it? Dishonest and misleading memo wrecked the House intel committee, destroyed trust with Intelligence Community, damaged relationship with FISA court, and inexcusably exposed classified investigation of an American citizen. For what? DOJ & FBI must keep doing their jobs.

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Responses to the #NorthKorea - South Korea love in at the #PyeongChang2018 #Olympics can be divided into two categories: 1. Those who see this sporting event as a harbinger of enduring peace on the Korean peninsula; and, 2. Those with even the mildest lingering grip on reality.

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9 years

The people of Australia just delivered Tony Abbott a firm reverse goosestep anti-fascist kick to the groin. #BorderForce #auspol

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6 years

Remember #ICQ (uh oh)? Remember when cyberspace was a liberal domain? Remember when major tech companies were not seeking to control everything we think, say and do? #TechTyrants

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Crispin Rovere

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Possibly. I'm sure that South Korean officials would have said or done anything to get this result. Even so, this is a window of opportunity, and given that the only other possibility is war, let's try this option first.

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@jbarro Yup, because plunging America into conflict over unproven WMD allegations worked out so well last time.

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7 years

It's a simple equation - Boomers control almost all the national wealth in Democracies, combined with the relatively high social mobility of the dynamic authoritarian economies in Asia... If democracy isn't inspiring young people it's because older people have not been inspiring.

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Fucking millennials. #WEF18 #Democracy

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...these is more despairing: 1) what this means for censorship in Australia; 2) The obsession with controlling speech; 3) How much power/influence these people think they have to even ask; or, 4) Just how cheaply they thought I might surrender my greatest human right. #auspol

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Crispin Rovere

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6 years

@AkbarSAhmed Huffington post is going out of business. Thank Christ.

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5 years

Thread. Reminds me of those dedicated translators who smuggled thousands of Lithuanian books into Vilnius during Soviet occupation (oldest language in Europe, pre-dating Latin by thousands of years). @Quillette is the same, only instead of language it preserves critical thought.

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5 years

The Deranged Twitter Left hates @Quillette because they all know that some of their friends are reading us Incognito.

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Avoid accidental war. Attack #NorthKorea deliberately.

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President Trump's rash actions are making an accidental war with North Korea more likely. As a member of the Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees—and more importantly the father of a Marine—I have some thoughts on how we can avoid that disaster.

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"In a fit of absent-mindedness, people vote for Labor Governments" - @TonyAbbottMHR #auspol #libspill http://t.co/hxsaoEMUDs

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