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Always great to join you @NicolleDWallace ! On @DeadlineWH . — PolitiTweet.org

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Thanks @LincolnWatchman. Talked about the conflict in our politics between the truth and the lie. — PolitiTweet.org

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Always great to join @NicolleDWallace on @DeadlineWH on @msnbc — PolitiTweet.org

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Looking forward to joining @NicolleDWallace on @DeadlineWH on @MSNBC in a few minutes. — PolitiTweet.org

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the world into what Zuck calls the METAVERSE. What is that? Probably a discussion for another day but it is one worth having. Why is it that he wants to get there first? — PolitiTweet.org

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what on first blush seems like an encroaching encirclement of Mr. Zuckerberg’s fantasies of Empire by angry global legislators, regulators and governments? I think it is to delay a reckoning for as long as possible so as to make the current debates irrelevant as Facebook steers — PolitiTweet.org

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anorexia and bulimia as a public health threat took hold it seems rather remarkable that a technology has come to exist that spreads anorexia and body dysmorphia to young people like a digital Typhoid Mary. All of this begs the question, What is Facebooks strategy to deal with — PolitiTweet.org

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combines with an algorithmic penal system that imprisons the unjustly captured behind illusions that too often start a terrible journey down a rabbit hole of toxic misinformation malice, meanness, conspiracy, hate, lies and extremism. Growing up in an era where knowledge about — PolitiTweet.org

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this. Zuckerberg and crew have a much better grasp of what the world will look like with the technology they are creating than do the politicians tasked with controlling them and protecting us. What Zuckerberg and Sandberg have created is an endorphin release technology that — PolitiTweet.org

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worth a trillion dollars. The shareholders have gotten rich while the culture has gotten sick. It is not a trade off the voters should sanctify. For many of us, watching Congressional technology hearings is like zoom coaching our parents. One thing is perfectly clear and it is — PolitiTweet.org

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I can’t recommend the @ceciliakang and @sheeraf book about Facebook “An Ugly Truth” more highly. Here is why. There are powerful forces that are shaping the future of our American society. Facebook has grown in a short span of years into a giant and powerful global company — PolitiTweet.org

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the past as irrelevant trivia and nuisance. It is a perspective that discounts the possibility of white hot embers burning under an ash heap because the ash heap can’t be seen at all or worse, accurately remembered. — PolitiTweet.org

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is viewed as so historically unique that any lessons of history used to explicate and navigate it are often viewed as an affront rooted in a deficit of sophistication around grasping the complexities of a present so innately special that it renders comparisons and lessons from — PolitiTweet.org

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can’t quite catch up and offer any meaning in our faster, modern times, which of course are made special and unique, mainly by virtue of the fact, that this is the time WE are living in. it is a perspective steeped in a type of adolescent arrogance where the present moment — PolitiTweet.org

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aided by the weakness of the virtuous”. A lack of imagination about humanities capacity to create new chapters of horror seems to be a type of inherited blindness that is passed between the generations. It produces a dogma of naïveté that believes the lessons of the past — PolitiTweet.org

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or warning. Stories, like the one @eliehonig is telling aren’t just history, they are a perpetual warning. Churchill saw the rising danger of Nazism. When the war that killed 100 million people was over he tried to explain how it happened by saying “The malice of the wicked was — PolitiTweet.org

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understand. The first is, what happened? The second is, how did it happen? Often, the lessons of these events, recent history, which still exists within the boundaries of living memory, are lost when they are applied to our current politics and division as points of comparison — PolitiTweet.org

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are “latent Eichmann’s” all around us. He said they are harmless in a democracy; benign. However, in a dictatorship, whether from the right or left, they can become lethal, deadly and capable of crimes that beggar imagination. There are two questions that are essential to — PolitiTweet.org

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Interview a generation later in the early 1980’s. Responding to a question, he said the experience changed his perspective on everything, most importantly, his belief in democracy as the only way to protect humanity from the monsters among us. He explained that there — PolitiTweet.org

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a defensive act and a lawful exercise of power. It lasted 90 minutes and was the most consequential convocation of evil in world history. It begat humanities greatest crime. The man who interrogated Eichmann in Israel was named Avner Less. He reflected on the experience in an — PolitiTweet.org

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I hope people will watch this documentary piece. SS Obersturmbannfuhrer Adolph Eichmann was the recording secretary at the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942. It was at this meeting presided over by Heydrich that the “Final Solution” was sanctified as a moral necessity, — PolitiTweet.org

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Here is a great story about General Powell from the great Photographer David Kennerly @kennerly — PolitiTweet.org

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👇Understanding the story of Eichmann and the meaning of his existence and the dangers of “ latent Eichmanns” and “ little Eichmann’s” is essential as the last of the perpetrators and survivors of humanities greatest crime come to the end of long human lives. — PolitiTweet.org

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👇👇great book. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DeadlineWH: "Ringing out across our nation's capital... is another scathing rebuke of the Republicans party from Liz Cheney, who used t… — PolitiTweet.org

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seizure of a free society’s most elemental virtue for the purposes of sundering the Republic. It is the possibility that the majority of adults in our American society won’t be able to discern the truth from the lie or even worse know there is a difference between the two at all. — PolitiTweet.org

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has claimed for himself and his Fascist movement the high ground of Truth. Trump’s truth is a hideous deception, a mirage cloaked in cynicism and malice. Trump will build his poisonous redoubt in a corner of the Internet. The threat for our children is not his Orwellian — PolitiTweet.org

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The Trump Presidency began with a cancerous lie, specifically a lie of authority that demanded obedience and submission from his followers who could plainly see Trump’s crowd size was anemic. Now the greatest, deadliest and most prolific liar in the history of the United States — PolitiTweet.org

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I read it until almost 4 am. Could not put it down. This is the perfect Xmas book gift for anyone into books about spies and real life. Buy it. They’ll love it. — PolitiTweet.org

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I’m reading one of the best books I’ve ever read #Damascus Station @mccloskeybooks written by David McCloskey. It is a breathtaking account from a CIA insider about the Syrian hellscape, forged by a tsunami of atrocities inflicted by Bashir Al Assad on the Syrian people. — PolitiTweet.org