#Authoritarian

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Portello16

As if they needed this to silence people. Do I need to remind you you almost got killed by poisoning just for speaking out ? I'd take a twitter ban

Sharkie

1PolicyWonk

THREAD In recent weeks, pseudo-experts (from Sahan & Heritage et al) have come out in full swing and have gone into greater length to frame the renewed diplomatic tensions bw

Emil Sandstedt

bezantdenier

1.) The first chapter of 'Money Dethroned - A Journey through Ashes', details many Chinese attempts at paper money. They all failed. 2.) These 'paper money' scams may be said

Peter Arenella

arenella1

1]To fairly judge the true character of any good politician, you have to see them in action with their mask off dealing with people who they don't know and who

Ryan Hass

ryanl_hass

1/ Recommend pairing this important piece by @ChuBailiang with the slew of recent pieces by other Chinese scholars, such as Fu Ying, Jie Dalei, Huang Jing, etc., to get a

John Hayward

Doc_0

It's remarkable how perfectly Covid-19 slotted into all of the worst tendencies and most malevolent trends in Western politics. It made every bad trend much worse. It was rocket fuel

Peter Khalil MP

PeterKhalilMP

1/This week, @CraigKelly got a slap on the wrist by the PM for his dangerous promotion of quack COVID treatments. But Morrison & Co. have allowed him to spout misinformation

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis

KendraWrites

To recap: More than 160,000 people in the US have died from Covid-19. The vast majority of deaths which were preventable. Because of gross mismanagement of the outbreak the Census,

Zeeshan Aleem

ZeeshanAleem

A lot of people are deeply concerned about how Trump could use his assault on the Postal Service to steal the election. But what may be under-appreciated is that Trump

Samuel Amaha

SamuelTsegai1

@Abbaacabsa Is not the Oromo cause premised on the historical understanding that the #Ethiopia/n empire-state was "invented" through a violent subjection of previously independent communities (like the Oromos, the Wolaytas,

Jonathan Wilson

jnthnwwlsn

"Shonda basically solves the race problem [in Georgian Britain] by individualizing it as a love story." This is related, I think, to the show's rape controversy—which arises bc of the

Heidi Cuda

Heidi_Cuda

Since everyone is holed up watching films, here are some documentaries that I recommend.Start with the O.G. Trump-Russia @ZEMBLA docs.It’s never too late to wise up.1/https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1128016862086721536 2/ @ActMeasur

Tim Hogan

TimInHonolulu

1. On China: My home was like a little Chinese museum of things that my parents brought back after the fled Shanghai in the spring of 1949. Our folks raised

Resist the Hologram - Stu Cvrk

STUinSD

(1 of 11) China’s Virulent Strain of Communism – a Must read!Ideological confrontation is anathema to today’s CCP because the Marxism-Leninism it enshrines is, as Pompeo notes, a bankrupt creed

Zach Carter

zachdcarter

.@ddayen's piece looking ahead to the potentially disastrous lame duck months has me thinking about if and how our political system can grapple with the flatly criminal legacy of the

Dr Captain Barf, PhD 😏

barf_captain

Every single measure you can take to fix society is cordoned off by taboos. Any direction you can move results in a criminal charge: You hate women. You're racist. You're

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