#Authoritarian

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

B. Allen-Ebrahimian

BethanyAllenEbr

To everyone freaking out about Linda Thomas-Greenfield giving a speech at the Savannah State University Confucius Institute — I, too, gave a speech at that Confucius Institute, one year before

Southern Anti-Racist | Abolition Now

antiracistsouth

The next 5-10 years will be a critical time in right wing politics in the U.S. (and bc of their outsized electoral influence, on ALL our lives). Here’s how I

Jonathan D. K. Fitzgerald

JonathanDKF

Been doing some thinking about the events of January 6th; and I’ve realized that while they were shocking, abhorrent, they weren’t exactly unexpected. A short thread on the current state

Marco Rogers

polotek

Bingo.https://twitter.com/alicegoldfuss/status/1286023079815077889 I hope white people are seeing this for what it is. The administration is testing the waters for whether it's okay to clamp down on white people in the

Patrick Chovanec

prchovanec

Look, when the US has serious conflicts with any country - be it China, Iran, North Korea, etc - the first question is not whether we can make all those

Jennifer Mercieca

jenmercieca

A dangerous demagogue is an unaccountable leader. Unaccountable to the rule of law, unaccountable to political norms, unaccountable to the will of the people.Trump is doing exactly what we'd expect

Jen Brick Murtazashvili

jmurtazashvili

In this piece, @MohammadQadamsh and I show how efforts to build the Afghan state are now hurting people more than they are helping.Twitter is no place for nuance, so please

Ahmed قَطَنَّش

gatnash

The original promise of Bitcoin was that it would free people from dependence on a banking system many consider corrupt, unethical, arbitrary and unaccountable. 12 years on, can it be

Christina Dendy

cdendy76

1/ So many saw this coming years ago, but what's worse is that it's all been centuries in the making because this country has never completely lived up to its

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

Hugo Greenhalgh

hugo_greenhalgh

1/7) "'The Beatles' are four pleasant-voiced pop singers, for whom foolish girls swoon over in crowds – as crowds always do when their idols appear."The #LGBTQ Diaries of Mr Lucas

Reformed Goodest Buggo

Queen_Buggo

the reason I come to blows with people who scream about "black rights" and "trans rights" and "women's rights" is that they're so belligerent and aggressive about it to the

Lydia DePillis

lydiadepillis

Some cocktail hour thoughts. As a human in the world who pays attention, I carry around a lot of anger. As a journalist trying to remain a trustworthy messenger, I

Sagi Thilipkumar

Sagisagt

Interesting article on the Swiss embassy abduction case in Sri Lanka by @NZZ (in German). Worth a read altough many questions remain unanswered.https://twitter.com/sagisagt/status/1338950078871048192 The Swiss-Sri Lankan relationship is com

Lumière

Lumiere_LLL

Fascism & The Jewish Question: A ThreadFascism is the most misunderstood political stance ever. Left-wingers and right-wingers keep accusing each other of being Fascists while no actual Fascism exists and

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