#Authoritarianism

🔥 Kareem Carr 🔥

kareem_carr

There's an increasing tendency for technological and scientific advances to concentrate power in the hands of a few elites such as technical experts, government and billionaires.I call this tendency Scientific

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

Trump and the Right have created a fake crisis of “violence in Democratic cities” to distract from very real crises in the pandemic and the economy.They’re going to shred the

İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي

iyad_elbaghdadi

There's a direct relationship between mediocrity and authoritarianism. Authoritarians value loyalty over competence, and so attract those who know they can never accomplish success based on their competence, but have

Tom de Guerre

threecatpileup

I have been waiting for Nov. 5th to make this post. A thread about the movie "V for Vendetta" and my 2020 revelations--losing friends and losing faith in my longtime

Matthias Goldmann

MattHGoldmann

The BVerfG deserves harsh words for its PSPP verdict. However, AG Tanchev seems to be carrying it a bit far. 1/https://twitter.com/eucourtpress/status/1339505264072994816 Admittedly, Tanchev voices the concerns shared by many

Roy Ngerng

royngerng

Very important point he's making. We are seeing the beginnings of how an authoritarian regime tries to use persecution to instill fear onto free-thinking people, and how this will eventually

Jon “Bowzer” Bauman

JonBowzerBauman

My message to all Democrats:Never be scared, never whine, don’t complain, but instead become STRATEGIC.During this next time period, lots of Republicans you know are going to have to decide

John Hayward

Doc_0

The worldwide movement toward "limited authoritarianism," already well under way but dramatically accelerated by the coronavirus, is driven by the elite consensus that ordinary people cannot be trusted with so

John Hayward

Doc_0

This sinister "Great Reset" stuff suggests we really might be approaching the "end of history" this time - not with the worldwide acceptance of classical liberalism, but with its decisive

Anna Rascouët-Paz

rascouet

I wanted to share a series I've been working on. Research to shed light on this moment. Hang on to your hats, here comes a thread. A live chat from

Mike Dunford

questauthority

For the record, and for short-term reassurance:Nothing that has been filed today makes me think the Texas case is going anywhere. Either leave to file will be denied, or it

Bryan Young

swankmotron

It is worth pointing out again that Newt Gingrich is one of the chief inspirations for the downfall of the Republic in Star Wars. Newt Gingrich is where Nute Gunray

Russell Lamberti

RussLamberti

Putting highly sensitive, unproven assumptions into models with hundreds/thousands of lines of opaque code spitting out numbers that get handed to bureaucrats to tell tens of millions of people how

Zakarian

mariam_zakarian

What I'm missing from this discussion: (thread)How did Twitter & Facebook define and decide which tweets to remove and why?Did Trump say anything explicitly illegal?Did he share a link to

Bill Pascrell, Jr.

BillPascrell

In 2021 the entire Trump regime must be fully investigated by the Dept of Justice and other relevant offices. Trump and his worst enablers must be tried for their crimes.

Ben Stanley

BDStanley

As someone less sceptical about the utility of populism as a concept, but who shares Art's misgivings about the empirical and normative consequences of its misuse, my take-home was "We

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