#Authoritarian

Palladium Magazine

palladiummag

The difference between america and China, as authoritarian party-states, is that in America, you whine about it and make petty shots on political enemies, and in China, you use it

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

I agree with @WalshFreedom.What looks like a "Civil War" is moderates, conservatives, and proponents of rule of law leaving or being pushed out.The Republican Party is shrinking and hardening into

John Hayward

Doc_0

Xi Jinping's speech at Davos boiled down to: The world has no choice but to do business with China, and if you want to do business with China, you need

Ashton Pittman

ashtonpittman

“Those who want to take down this flag of Mississippi are the racists. (They) think so little of minorities that they love to give them handouts like affirmative action."That's what

Marcel Dirsus

marceldirsus

I'm sure China would close its detention camps for Muslims if we'd sell them another 2 million cars. At 5m more cars they'll stop forced sterilizations of Uighurs. If we

David Leask

LeaskyHT

I feel the need to face check these exceptionalist claims. 1/the number of non-native English speakers is disputed. Depends what you mean by “speak”. English/Brit nationalists frequently over-estimate numbers of

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ikanselarkuning

Maybe it's time we accept that S'pore's mainstream, moderate pundit class — long functioning as the PAP's auxiliary advertising department — is at best, a cluster of grifters desperate for

CZEdwards ($2KforAll)

CZEdwards

#SubtweetAlertSystemtaking your kid’s door is never good parenting.You’re telling your kidthey have no right to their bodiesno right to privacyanyone with more power can violate their space& force them to

Seth Frantzman

sfrantzman

Thread: Those who believe the destructive war against poor Armenia was about hurting Iran have bought into the narrative of Ankara entirely...there is zero evidence Iran was harmed by a

Bart Penders

b_penders

Vaccine hesitancy, again: "[A]ttitudes towards vaccines against Covid-19 must be read in the context of broader perceptions of the management of the current crisis [...]". In other words: it is

The Old Man

gebush75

Now We Know… With the acquittal of Donald Trump for insurrection, the GOP PROUDLY proclaimed that they’re more-than-willing to overthrow our Democratic Republic in lieu of an Authoritarian. Their only

Marianne Williamson

marwilliamson

1/ Large groups of desperate people are a national security risk, whether here or in other corners of the world. They form a petri dish out of which mass societal

Abir Ballan 😊

abirballan

We are being distracted and kept busy with masks, PCR tests, variants and lockdowns while the heart of the problem is emerging clearly to be a chasm between centralization and

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BoxCoterie

I'm really at the limit how much more Twitter I can tolerate. There is a common form of messaging here where some says a thing, then gets QT'd by someone

Nathan Law 羅冠聰

nathanlawkc

THREAD:1. In the past few days, some compared the storming to the Hong Kong Legislative Council to the chaos in Capitol hill. It's the WRONG comparison. Several scenes on 1st

Jennifer Mercieca

jenmercieca

Edward Bernays, 1936 speech on propaganda:democracy, as a system of government & way of life, requires propaganda to sustain itself. People have to be reminded of what democracy matters, or

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