#Spectacle

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

This is what Yale Professor @TimothyDSnyder calls "governing by crisis and spectacle.The purpose of a fascist government is to maintain order, which means keeping the ruling oligarchs rich and everyone

The Telegraph

Telegraph

The Star of Bethlehem may have been what is known as a ‘Great Conjunction’ of planets, according to the Vatican.The starry phenomenon is set to take place once again –

Guilaine Kinouani

KGuilaine

We either accept racism is structural & backed up by systemic power or we don’t. We can’t simply change the frame when the bigot is black. This is anti-blackness. The

Daniel Howden

daniel_howden

THREAD: What happens next on Lesbos after the notorious Moria camp burns to the ground? It will be rebuilt. Despite its chaotic aspect, Moria was the product of political calculations

Anagha

uhnuhgha

Many of us come to Twitter to feel heard, or to seek relief from real-world chaos. I felt some relief initially, now I feel confused - I scroll endlessly and

Barty

Ba4ty

I'm not even going to bother watching the next few matches. Pretty much every game has been a waste of my life so far this season. Football is dismal enough

Jay Caruso

JayCaruso

The bevy of garbage excuses playing out over the Woodward book is quite the spectacle. "Well, he played it down because he didn't want to cause a panic. That's good!"

Seth Ackerman

SethAckerman

a sizable contingent of people are claiming that a far-right coup is underway — not in some figurative sense, not as a hypothetical, but as something happening right now, before

Justin Sytsma 🇨🇦

justinsytsma

I'm not going to dive back into the S*** F***** discourse because I don't wanna give him more attention, but can we talk about "salvations" for a moment? A .1/13

Chivas Femenil English

Chivas_FEng

Not shocking at all to see Mx futbol fans/media turn gender violence accusations into some twisted contest to heighten or harm clubs’ “greatness”, but still If anyone wants a

sháwn

violenkrat

The reason why everything feels so anticlimatic is because people expected a two-sided spectacle and an all-out war between Eren and the world, but this isn't what this is about—it

Dr. Danna Young🇺🇸✌🏻

dannagal

Reflections on a Theme: “it’s all different when it directly affects me.” 1) Megan McCain returns to the view after maternity leave, suddenly aware of the challenge of motherhood, calls

Matt Glassman

MattGlassman312

The “let him have his legal process and then it will be over” crowd in the GOP isn’t going to win. We’re going to get the full spectacle of successive

Esfandyar Batmanghelidj

yarbatman

1. For decades, depictions of the War on Terror in news, movies, and video games repeated potent imagery that became motifs—"the convoy" + "holy book and gun" etc.It makes *total*

Alex Haagaard (they/them)

alexhaagaard

Hot take alert because I took a triptan yesterday and I can't focus on anything other than this here bird site:Invisible disability doesn't (or shouldn't) refer to what the general

rhizomatic tiz 🏴🏴‍☠️♠️

critical_fairy

honestly there’s no recent cultural phenomenon as literally “hauntological” as the resurgence of early aughts “webcore” aesthetics amongst gen z. what was already an aesthetic mired in the prospects of

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