#Democracies

Taiwan New Year Birds 台灣🐦

TaiwanBirding

It’s not about bragging, but sorrowful anger that so much of 2020’s horridness for friends around the world was avoidable. How did #Taiwan ‘beat’ Covid-19 (with no lockdowns, little disruption,

Adolfo Laurenti

AdolfoLaurenti

PERSONAL/POLITICAL. Today I cast my vote for the @LibDems leadership contest. And I am voting Layla @LaylaMoran. A few thoughts about my decision. #VoteLayla #LibDemLeadership @LibDemPress 1/6 This may be

Courtenay Stallings

CourtenayCal

Scholars of fascism, the far right and authoritarianism wrote an open letter of concern that "regardless of the outcome of the United States’ election, democracy as we know it is

Steve Schmidt

SteveSchmidtSES

The Trump Coup rolls on. Fueled by Trump’s brittle ego, idiocy, malice and the political cowardice of most all elected Republicans, this sad spectacle seems like the perfect ending to

Stephen Komarnyckyj

komarnyckyj

1) In 2017 I predicted the UK would become an oligarchy in an interview with JJ Patrick on Byline Times- now, three years later, the process and its links to

Sabine Weyand

WeyandSabine

I disagree with the assertion, and I ask myself against what benchmark the EU is measured here. The EU’s 2019 China Communication sets out a comprehensive strategy that treats China

Helen Pluckrose

HPluckrose

Why is this point hard to grasp? It worries me that this isn't clear to many people. It's a thorny problem where we have to balance the right of companies

The Crusader Project

crusaderproject

Also a brutal slaver, torturer, and quite frankly a terrorist. This isn’t news. But yeah, ‘our precious history’. This country has a lot of growing up to do. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/6467417.stm https://twitter.com/

Jon Ward

jonward11

Let me put a finer point on it. Parties exist to keep dangerous demagogues from securing the opportunity to stand before the nation for election. I & many others said

inverted vibe curve: burgertown must be defended

PatBlanchfield

every single time, for the past four years, there's been a high profile mass shooting with a sufficiently "political" character (read = falling with certain accepted frames of the political)

David McBride

MurdochCadell

Riddle me this: Q1. If Assange was 'a spy', who exactly was he 'spying for'? Q2: If Assange is not 'a spy', why is he being charged under the Espionage

Francis Hoar

Francis_Hoar

Countries whose police forces break up protests violently and do so spouting state propaganda are not liberal democracies.Lawyers and others who stand aside and greet this with silence - or,

Michael McFaul

McFaul

Here's my @JoeBiden foreign policy "to do" list in the first year. Day One: rejoin the Paris climate agreement. THREAD. 2. Extend the New START Treaty for five years. 3.

Paul Poast

ProfPaulPoast

Political Scientist here:Yes, that is political violence.Yes, this is an attempted coup.Yes, the US Polity score will take a hit. To elaborate:- "electoral violence" to be exact.- military wasn't involved

Jennifer Mercieca

jenmercieca

Oh, I see they'd like to make a distinction between Trump's pre-meditated and planned insurrection and the insurrection that Trump incited that same day?Why not both? Authoritarians:1) reject or show

words are weapons ⚡

vimoh

A people fight for their freedom, create a nation, and try to build it into a secular, liberal society. While all this is happening, one group stays out of it

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