#Authoritarian

mono 🏴

mono_toy

Dear fellow western, privileged, white-ass, so-called revolutionary left - I've said it before and I say it again. If you support an imperialist, oppressive, hyper-capitalist, authoritarian system out of spite

Sarah Kendzior

sarahkendzior

"In Russia, we saw that a great way for a leader to maintain power is to have oligarchs one level down. If they don't obey and let you do your

Nick Hudson

NickHudsonCT

Pam Groenewald, an officer of the SAMRC (@PamRenaud @MRCza) continues to misrepresent @PanData19's views, summarising them as "to try and minimise the suffering and mortality due to the Covid epidemic".

wilfred chan

wilfredchan

speaking for myself: i cannot support the hong kong autonomy act, which just passed the US senate unanimously. as gina chon wrote in reuters in may, sanctions have no obvious

Kirbmarc

kirbmarc

I'm getting a bit tired of people who think that criticism of some institutions justifies embracing "alternative" institutions as rational. Even if institutions are flawed people far too often embrace

The Editorial Board

johnastoehr

White liberals must face the truth by @johnastoehr https://stoehr.substack.com/p/white-liberals-must-face-the-truth?r=5msd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter 1. Ezra Klein, a prominent white liberal, is the top

Seth Frantzman

sfrantzman

I was 21 when the US launched its “war on terror,” at the time I thought it was reasonable and critiques of calling groups “terrorist” didn’t convince. Later I realized

Christopher Lasch's Angry Ghost

ghostofchristo1

The new "anti-imperialist imperialism" coming out of the US was something I noticed first in bookshop displays. The kinds of politics sections in London bookshops where you'd have found Streeck

Tea Pain

TeaPainUSA

MINI-THREAD: 1) Tea Pain has never been more ashamed of our government than he is now. Over 100 Republican members of the House and a dirty dozen GOP Senators are

BBC News (World)

BBCWorld

In Belarus, hundreds of opposition activists and journalists are being rounded up and jailed ahead of next month’s electionsBBC journalists watched as police grabbed peaceful protesters off the streets of

Alex Howard

digiphile

Journalism schools should teach this article as a egregious example of false equivalence in an age of asymmetric polarization. The reporter & editors do not provide sufficient context nor verification

🖖 Christian Janeway 🖖 Too Stubborn To Die

XianJaneway

I just blocked someone I considered a friend. I REALLY don't like blocking or cutting ties w/people. It makes me sick to my stomach. But I can't agree w/

A.Z. Foreman

azforeman

People hate to hear it but no, Trump is not a fascist. No major historian of classical fascism who has been asked by reporters if Trump is a fascist has

Sam Vinograd

sam_vinograd

1. There's a lot of news today, but as Americans vote, they should keep in mind that Trump tried to intervene in a criminal investigation to please a foreign leader.

Cathy Reisenwitz 🏗🌐🥑

CathyReisenwitz

That 1/2+ of the House GOP caucus would endorse “Stop the Steal” after the coup attempt shows how hostile the white Christian nationalist wing is to democracy when it threatens

Eric July

EricDJuly

Fascism being on the opposite end of socialism is ahistorical considering Fascism (according to its godfathers) was specifically built to be anti-individual and pro-collectivist.. which virtually every socialist would agree

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