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yes i know mitchum wasn't acting in the 1930s — PolitiTweet.org

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thinking specifically of robert mitchum here https://t.co/SXAxYMAoQK — PolitiTweet.org

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actor bios in the 1930s: he was a vagrant until some studio exec thought he might look good in a picture — PolitiTweet.org

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@MadMadMadMadRN sort of? the UK had its parliamentary parties but because the US system was explicitly not a parliament there was no real expectation that anything similar would develop — PolitiTweet.org

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@NussbaumAbigail yeah that's probably a better way to put it — PolitiTweet.org

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@themikewest right, but there is a reason we generally refer to the jacksonian democratic party as the first real political party, versus the federalists or the jeffersonian republicans — PolitiTweet.org

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“factions” as described in federalist 10 are not quite the same as organized political parties. factions are narrow and specific interests, what we might call an “interest group,” parties are coalitions of interests devoted to winning office — PolitiTweet.org

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Well, the Founders/Framers didn't envision political parties! Which is part of the structural problem with the American political system! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @WillOremus: If you consistently find that the best minds of your generation are working on pointless or even societally corrosive proje… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Phil_Lewis_: Tests performed for thousands of Chicago residents found lead, a neurotoxin, in amounts far exceeding the federal standard… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CoolBoxArt: Pizza Tycoon / Print ad / Cybernetic Corporation / 1994 https://t.co/AXNW8dlrnd — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @aarmlovi: Cycling officially no longer requires good politics or hobbyist passion E-bikes are turning "farm-to-table" urban cycling in… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @LarryGlickman: One element of the Trump presidency that has been memory-holed is the degree to which Trump agreed to let Paul Ryan set… — PolitiTweet.org

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1) the movies look better 2) i like collecting stuff 3) i like showing people my movie collection — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bybowes: Cinema priorities: 1. Style 2. Vibes (arguably 1a, arguably arguably flippable with 1) 3. Character 501. Having a point 184… — PolitiTweet.org

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@harlan_to Said is cited in the footnotes — PolitiTweet.org

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@Franc_tireurs @opinonhaver exactly this. the piece is a model of mills' larger arguments about the centrality of race thinking to western ontologies. — PolitiTweet.org

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I guess I shouldn't be surprised that so many of you are very clearly looking for a reason to dismiss this essay and reading it in bad faith but yeah. — PolitiTweet.org

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@sghybnaf That's not what the essay is doing but you very clearly are looking for a reason to dismiss it, so you do you. — PolitiTweet.org

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@sghybnaf It's very easy for me to tell when someone is looking for a reason to dismiss something and you are looking for a reason to dismiss this essay for whatever reason. — PolitiTweet.org

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@logoff151 yeah, it's why i'm muting this thread and moving on, do not want to deal with people who think it's too heavy lifting to read thirty pages with an open mind — PolitiTweet.org

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@TC_Erin use your brain for a minute — PolitiTweet.org

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@sghybnaf this essay was written in the 1990s — PolitiTweet.org

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@adamlcox the argument of the essay is not that tolkien is racist — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @adamlcox: I sort of feel like Tolkien being racist should surprise exactly no one. The biggest flaw in the whole thing is the idea of s… — PolitiTweet.org

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@BeijingPalmer okay — PolitiTweet.org

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@BeijingPalmer going to be straight with you: i think Mills is too sophisticated and powerful a thinker to be dismissed in this manner — PolitiTweet.org

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@BeijingPalmer i think mills addresses this in the essay — PolitiTweet.org

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just going to put this here https://t.co/N4TCNzmS5P — PolitiTweet.org

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@mboyd1971 https://t.co/N4TCNznpVn — PolitiTweet.org