#Authoritarian

Abraham Newman

ANewman_forward

Thread: Syllabus alert -- New paper w/@henryfarrell in @IntOrgJournal on how the liberal international information order is becoming self-undermining. Helps makes sense of stories like this.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/

Joshua Wester

jbwester

Some on the Right would have you believe that you’re not really a conservative unless you are willing to pretend that you are crazy. But those who imply such are

Helen Pluckrose

HPluckrose

Going to start my day with a thread but then I'll need to go and work so I probably won't catch most of the replies. When I used to focus

Elizabeth Mika

yourauntemma

It is important to remember, as difficult as it may be to accept, that the problematic behavior of a narcissistic psychopath in a position of ultimate power will not change

G O L D I E.

goldietaylor

Woke up this morning to even more anchors and pundits putting platitudes about “working class Americans” and how troubled they are about Dems losing tight races for Senate and the

Jarrod McKenna ⧖

jarrodmckenna

People know that George Orwell literally fought against fascism, right?Like travelled to Spain to volunteer fighting under the red and black flags of the anarcho-socialists, right?That his “Animal Farm” is

ClearingTheFog

clearing_fog

The Republican Party is an authoritarian power structure.For decades, it embraced greedy nihilists in order to win elections.In the last 10+ years, a well-funded insurgency has infiltrated and captured it.They

Paul Poast

ProfPaulPoast

I'm done using the term "Consolidated Democracy"Here's why.[THREAD] To be clear, I have a vested interest in this term. It played a key role in research @jurpelai and I conducted

Jack Lenox

GreenPartyJack

A thread: I had a chat on the phone with my brother today. He lives in Singapore and was heading out for dinner at a restaurant with some friends.To date,

Brunel Marxist Society

BrunelMarxist

I've seen there was a somewhat large "debate" on the subject of authoritarianism going down on socialist twitter so I decided to make some graphics explaining the marxist view of

Timothy Snyder

TimothyDSnyder

11/20. American exceptionalism prevents us from seeing basic truths. 12/20. Biden voters are wrong to see a Biden administration as inevitable. Take responsibility, Democrats. 13/20. In an authoritarian situation, the

Justice Democrats are Reaganites of the 21st C

acidsaltydame

I'm going to explain things as an immigrant's daughter re why I don't support the JDs perspective of total government control:1) My parents work for the VA which is solely

Colin Mills

OxSoc

Things ain't simple. It's perfectly consistent to believe the following: 1) a government appointed free speech czar is a terrible idea & undesirable 2) many members of academia don't notice

Alfie Kohn

alfiekohn

1/5 Many members of the fascist mob were comfortably middle class; quite a few were local GOP officeholders. And here's a fact about ALL the people who demanded that the

A.R. (Actually Republic) Moxon

JuliusGoat

The reality is very simple: The Republican Party is no longer participating in democracy. They're running a series of ops against every election cycle, predicated on the notion that only

Lyman Stone 石來民

lymanstoneky

I get the desire to punish everybody associated with Trump but "a bunch of people who've been running the country for 4 years and have a bunch of political supporters

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