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🇺🇸 HILLARY: “STUDY THE CAMPAIGN, MAMDANI’S WAS EXTREMELY EFFECTIVE” Speaking on the rise of Mamdani, Clinton praised his groundbreaking use of digital outreach, calling him “a brilliant social media candidate” and a case study in modern political communication: “Well, he was a brilliant social media candidate. It proves my...

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A senior Biden-Harris administration alum just KNEECAPPED Xavier Becerra after the California gubernatorial debate, saying that there is wide Cabinet Secretary-level agreement that he was "not an effective HHS Secretary." Xochitl Hinojosa, a Biden DOJ and DNC alum: "After working in Joe Biden's administration, I do not trust Xavier Becerra [to stand up to Donald Trump]. Hinojosa continues: "When I saw him in the administration and I think a lot of people did and people understand this. It's he was not effective in governing. And I think that a lot of people in the Biden administration are talking about this because they realize that he was not an effective HHS Secretary. And if you ask any cabinet secretary, they would tell you the same thing. And so I think that there is a I think people recognize this and I think this is why Tom Steyer has gone to the top." CNN's Abby Phillip confirms: "This is that's not this is not the first time that I've heard that, right? So what Xochi's talking about is a real thing."
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🔥JD Vance: "But here is a thing I want all of you to remember." "Charlie was not effective just because he had opinions. A lot of people have opinions. Charlie was effective because he was courageous, because he worked very hard, and because he made his vision a reality." "if you care about this country, as I know all of you do, don‘t just complain about social media. Get up and get involved in a campaign. If you want a better policy outcome even from an administration that you voted for, then get out and get involved and make your voice heard." Perfect example showing why he will be the 48th President.

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77,043 views • 9 months ago

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306,055 views • 4 months ago

The founding father of Mozambique, the revolutionary President Samora Machel, spoke about how a society can be destroyed by superstition in a speech he gave while visiting Zimbabwe in the 1980s. He said superstition is not good for a nation. To be superstitious is not good. I see this problem every day on my social media accounts. I have over 1.7 million people following me across Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, and what really worries me is the level of superstition on the comments sections of my social media platforms, even among young people. I can understand older people because that is the world they know and how they were brought up, but what is disturbing is that even young people believe in superstition. As President Samora Machel said, this creates barriers. It creates barriers to success because you are constantly thinking that someone is trying to bewitch you. When this way of thinking is planted in the minds of young people at a young age, they grow up believing it and carrying it into adulthood. It breeds fear, suspicion, and paralysis instead of confidence, hard work, and clear thinking. It is deeply sad and it holds our societies back. President Machel argued that obscurantism was especially dangerous because it makes people accuse each other of witchcraft, destroys social trust, encourages paranoia and fear, and kills rational thinking, science, and modern state-building.
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The founding father of Mozambique, the revolutionary President Samora Machel, spoke about how a society can be destroyed by superstition in a speech he gave while visiting Zimbabwe in the 1980s. He said superstition is not good for a nation. To be superstitious is not good. I see this problem every day on my social media accounts. I have over 1.7 million people following me across Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, and what really worries me is the level of superstition on the comments sections of my social media platforms, even among young people. I can understand older people because that is the world they know and how they were brought up, but what is disturbing is that even young people believe in superstition. As President Samora Machel said, this creates barriers. It creates barriers to success because you are constantly thinking that someone is trying to bewitch you. When this way of thinking is planted in the minds of young people at a young age, they grow up believing it and carrying it into adulthood. It breeds fear, suspicion, and paralysis instead of confidence, hard work, and clear thinking. It is deeply sad and it holds our societies back. President Machel argued that obscurantism was especially dangerous because it makes people accuse each other of witchcraft, destroys social trust, encourages paranoia and fear, and kills rational thinking, science, and modern state-building.

Hopewell Chin’ono

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