#Authoritarian

My heart is heavy thinking of those we lost in the Parkland shooting. I was driving home from work in the Florida turnpike when it came on the radio. Just
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By saying something stupid, offensive, cruel, and misogynistic, the troll set off an outrage that grew his profile and undoubtedly raised disturbing levels of money from people who love it
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Respected Tory backbencher warns of Britain’s ‘drift towards becoming an authoritarian coercive state’, arguing we need a written constitution as protection of the people - against ‘something much darker’ lying
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The biggest divide on the Left is truly between those advocating for an overall extension of paternalism – people waiting to be saved (out of self-doubt, fear, laziness, etc.), or
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I rewatched 'Kaala' few days ago and found its interesting contextual connection with Salaam Bombay― the working-class ghetto of Mumbai, Nana Patekar's authoritarian, the Ganesh festival and the climax mob
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Even on its own terms, the “all uprisings against authoritarian ‘anti-imperialist’ states are CIA plots” narrative is so unbelievably disempowering. It’s amazing its exponents are allowed to get away with
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This is intimidation. Of course they are watching the streams, along with thousands of supporters who are trying to be informed and who donate to the cause. If sympathetic stremers
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Brief thread re cyclist hate. Mike Graham and his army of mouth-breathers. Can I suggest that Cycling Twitter ignores them? Yes it's hate, yes they're wrong, but it's just the
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On the eve of international anti-corruption day, a quick shout out to the many brave activists and investigative journalists taking great personal risks to expose and combat kleptocracy. We’ve featured
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My view on what right-wing politics should look like has changed quite a bit recently but I do think one important aspect of it might be the defence of normal
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Thread on Trump becoming an authoritarian and using tactics like Adolf Hitler Hitler's rise to power was weird and I explained why/how he became radicalized in my previous thread about
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Historian here, with a message for folks arguing against holding people accountable for the siege of the Capitol because "history will be the judge." We are in this mess, BECAUSE
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That sounds like your biggest fear. Stop projecting onto China. https://twitter.com/SecPompeo/status/1278113285343260673 The English translation of the law is available on the internet. I am looking at a copy of the
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Without much doubt, a full Section 230 *repeal* would be extremely disruptive (if at all possible b/c of USMCA).But everyone who has been opposing any *reform* for years, and who
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Coming back to this shocking-but-not-surprising report about how the Trumpists decided that we should live free and die. I was struck by how Italy (!) became first a reassuring model,
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Marxism cannot co-exist with our constitutional republic. It is anti-individualist, anti-capitalist, and anti-limited government. It aims —airily — at an equality of outcome, knowing full well that the endeavor, inevitably
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