#Authoritarian

Bikrum Gill

realDrcabbie

It is understandable that, when confronting an oppressive 'domestic' state-capital alliance, protesters and their supporters find solace in support from Western celebrities and politiciansHowever, there is a danger in such

Juha Remes 🐧👨‍💻

juha_remes

Yea, about that... Remember FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act)? Laws like FATCA (global reach) gave a legal precedent which authoritarian regimes will exploit once the genie is out of

Heather Burns

WebDevLaw

The 'blame the internet' narrative has crashed into the reality of a protected class which has the privilege to plan a terrorist act in the open, march unimpeded into the

megan squire

MeganSquire0

The statement from Facebook in your #5 tweet is a hamfisted, pitiful attempt at both-sidesism. I am not aware of the reach of IGD and Crimthinc on the FB platform,

Caitlin Johnstone ⏳

caitoz

Nobody likes to think of themselves as siding with the powerful against the weak, so they often re-frame a situation where they're doing exactly that using an incomplete analysis of

Club des Cordeliers

cordeliers

The ruling class may decide that a traditional authoritarian coup, with military control and suspension of the rule of law, may be necessary in order to consolidate and sustain what

Kronos

TitanTOC

Thread: In the USA we have this toxic environment where money and the pursuit thereof becomes a person’s highest ideal. Add to this the fact that people are no longer

Joey Cicero

joeycicer0

Identity politics - a THREAD...1/ Identity politics is divisive. Its proponents want us all to retreat into narrow groups and stay in our lanes. They are desperate to spark a

Elbridge Colby

ElbridgeColby

As Kaplan&I noted in our @ForeignAffairs piece: "ideology does not lie at the root of the matter between the United States and China—even if elements in China’s Marxist-Leninist elite think

Bob Rae

BobRae48

The struggle between the values of democracy, pluralism, and the rule of law, and authoritarian populism is playing out in many different places in the world today. In some countries,

Alex Hochuli

Alex__1789

A rolling #thread of useful articles and essays arguing, in various ways, that to call Trump a fascist is to miss what's really going Michael Lind on the American political

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zei_squirrel

the fall of the soviet union was objectively bad both for the mass of the people living inside it and for the world. what came after was disaster capitalism killing

Sarah Bressan

bressansar

How should #thinktanks think about misinformation? Here are a few points from our discussion:https://twitter.com/WonkComms/status/1362400578173890561 Yes, think tank(er)s are targets of misinformation, e.g. via twitter and on blogs. At toda

David Roberts

drvolts

This episode of @yourewrongabout is typically good, but what most fascinated/horrified me, what I can't stop thinking about, is the description of the Citadel itself. It's a "military college" in

Jim Stewartson, QAnon Eliminator 🇺🇸 #TTP #RIPQ

jimstewartson

QAnon was a psychological operation (PSYOP) against the American people that used alternate reality game (ARG) techniques to create an authoritarian CULT with Trump as leader.The cult uses online GANGSTALKING

Meghan Bodette

_____mjb

People want to make Turkey policy complicated, but it's not actually that complicated to state that peace is preferable to war, that democracy is preferable to autocracy, and that pluralism

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