#Oligarchy

1/I've been thinking back on the Bernie movement this week. And I felt it was time for a retrospective.So let's talk about that movement, and what it was, and how
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BREAKING: The IMF is preparing to strip the Central Bank of Ecuador out of the hands of its government in the name of "independence."Members of the @ProgIntl β€” incl. @Jayati1609,
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So let's talk about Zapata County.It's super working-class in its identity. It generally resists change and is sorta controlled by an oligarchy. More than that, however, it's a world to
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Hungarian scholar Balint Magyar offers a theory that explains why the US is holding out against the same tactics that caused other countries to collapse into autocracy.His theory also explains
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NPR is news for people who are okay with war and genocide as long as the paperwork is filled out correctly. National Petroleum Radio National Pentagon Radio Noncommittal Preening Republicans
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Honestly at this point Cyberpunk comes off to me like 50s retro-futurism trying to depict today. like there's nothing about cyberpunk that's more advanced than modern technology and neither is
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Ai memorizes patterns. It doesn't generalize well.To generalize better, blend the results of a few Ai's. Google blends 8 deep learning results.One person is very wrong about the number of
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THREAD:America is not a Democracy. America is a Plutocracy. Disclaimer: This topic is complicated. If you are half asleep, come back to read it later. Plutocracy = Oligarchy, where the
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Post-Taif Agreement Federalism in the Republic of Greater #Lebanon A #thread in 8 parts plus a post script: 1/8Federalism allows for power sharing among constituent groups & entities (be they
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The Lord was instilling a dependence on God.#DeznatJaredites didn't seem to have any formal commandments from God other than to worship Him and Him alone. They were fleeing Idolatry and
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"The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy." - Montesquieu Today is #NoPoliticsDay,
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1/7 @realDonaldTrump brilliantly exposed the breadth of the swamp. After nearly a year of lockdowns, mask mandates, 1984 Orwellian censorship, race riots, then election fraud, angry Americans voiced their opinions
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Sometimes, being a historian can make your jaw drop.Charles Thomson was the Secretary of Congress from 1774-1789, from the first meeting of the Continental Congress until the new Constitution replaced
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(Thread) The Future of the GOP: Part IThe GOP is on a collision course with time.Its base of voters is aging and shrinking. The GOP has become a white grievance
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#RevThread #01/28/21Hell1/ I need a 'Get Out of Hell Free' card. In the Hellscape of America that surrounds me in the year of our Lord 2021, 450,000 souls have been
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1/? The most TPLF-friendly theory of the start of this war is: Abiy sent a large team of federal police commandos to Mekelle to arrest senior TPLF leaders, who as
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