politics
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What’s a health system? Let’s find out together.
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If we can’t package our ideas well enough, if we can’t spoonfeed our ideas to people and get them to swallow and digest them, then we have failed.
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Perform Conspiracy Theory enough times, and you start assaulting the truth.
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Words aren’t just words. They signify things. They create reality, for all of us.
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Mobilise a hyper-specific base around a hyper-specific message that subtly stokes racial tensions, and then gaslight anyone who sees the charade for what it is.
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Politics is a game of perception above all, and the image of something wins out over the reality. Therefore, it almost doesn’t matter what the truth is. What only matters is what people believe the truth is.
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Politicians try to sell you the recipe for rationality through the backdoor, while selling themselves as the only shop in town that offers their specific type of rationality.
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“Liberalism was informed by the society it originated in, by the monarchy that preceded it.. and of course, the people that founded it.”
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With democracy, we can and should do better. Violence indeed made South Africa ungovernable, but it was dialogue that led to the historic elections on this day 25 years ago. Fear may paralyze us into inaction, but it is only courage that leads to the bravest acts me, you and everybody around us celebrate today.
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