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- noun Plural form of
tribalist .
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Examples
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“Arguing with Mixner, and with many “conservative” tribalists, is like trying to pick up water with your bare hands.”
Matthew Yglesias » Mass Transit is As American as Apple Pie 2010
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Arguing with Mixner, and with many “conservative” tribalists, is like trying to pick up water with your bare hands.
Matthew Yglesias » Mass Transit is As American as Apple Pie 2010
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If there were a rational argument for mass immigration of undesirables, economists would not have to use the smear method of suggesting that only 'tribalists', primitives or otherwise hopelessly backward mentalities would not just believe in the desirability of the undesirables.
Evolutionary Psychology and Economic Bias, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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John S Bolton writes: why must a one-worlder perspective be smuggled in, smearing patriots as tribalists?
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The other part is her schtick – butt-headed contrarianism which is so easy to pick apart on the surface and which also seems to be coded drum signals for the tribalists.
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And you are one of the mindless political tribalists I described in @77.
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To tribalists it takes high rank on the list of line-crossing career lurches, up there with Sol Campbell from Spurs to Arsenal, Alan Smith from Leeds to Manchester United and Harry Redknapp bouncing between Southampton and Portsmouth.
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To tribalists it takes high rank on the list of line-crossing career lurches, up there with Sol Campbell from Spurs to Arsenal, Alan Smith from Leeds to Manchester United and Harry Redknapp bouncing between Southampton and Portsmouth.
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Labour tribalists, who John Kampfner describes (Comment, 3 May) as preparing to gloat at the defeat of AV, should look at the result of Canada's election (Comment, 4 May) and reconsider their position even now.
Letters: Lessons from Canada and Northern Ireland for AV voters 2011
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The really pathetic thing is that Cheney, Bush, Rice and the rest of them remain almost paralyzed with fear that a bunch of primitive tribalists hiding out in caves on the Afghan-Pakistan border are going to take over the world.
Wonk Room » Rice: Al Qaeda A Greater Threat Than Nazi Germany 2009
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