#Authoritarian

I’ve only been out in the world less than 10 times in the last year. Worn a mask less than 10 times. Went out yesterday.People have gone nuts. The masks,
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This by @JimGoldgeier and @BWJ777 on why the democracy summit is not a good idea is an important well argued piece which I half agree with. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2020-12-14/democracy-summit-not-what-doctor-ordered 1/9 Bruc
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The Trump/Bill Barr/GOP response to the black lives matter protests/movement highlights not just the “slouching towards authoritarianism”, but the acceleration of the pace of authoritarianism into a full-blown sprint…1/https://twitter
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To those studying (im)migration and citizenship, the move by Canadian immigration (IRCC) to drop its Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score cutoff for PR invitation to 75 (from its usual 450+)
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@TheEIU publishes their #DemocracyIndex every year which an index constructed based on five broad parameters.A short thread with all the graphs using their data from 2010-20 for #India Please like
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Star Wars characters’ voting intention thread Obi-Wan KenobiSolid Labour. Been with the party since the Foot years, supporting every leader along the way. Briefly left the party over Iraq but
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Oh my god. @DHSgov’s response to the @USGAO report that Wolf and Cuccinelli comes along with a *personal attack* on a GAO staffer who was involved with drafting the report.This
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So @shadihamid said something really questionable about whether researchers couldn't oppose what they study, then walked it back, and now my feed is full of people dunking on the 10/25
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My thinking on Starmer is not that he is a centrist but that he goes full valence in contrast to Corbyn's purely positional opposition.Not a lot to play with when
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When I was interviewing people for my documentary about democracy I saw a lot of evidence of deeply anti-democratic sentiment from conservatives. It was one of the most chilling and
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#STATEMENT: Today is #MaaveerarNaal - Tamil National Remembrance Day. While repression of memorialization was common in the past, this year, Tamil efforts to memorialize their dead have been met by
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The @CDCMMWR is one of the leading public health journals in the world. Because it is published by the @CDC, the Trump administration thinks it should be able to censor
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*Everything* in psychology has a cognitive dissonance angle. Like, I'm reading up on Reactance right now, where we humans will lose our shit if we think a freedom is being
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I am so tired of conspiracy theories about1) Nationwide blackouts2) Nationwide internet takedownsIt's like suggesting somebody is going to simultaneously unscrew every screw of varying sizes and types in your
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It is possible to believe that Twitter and Facebook did the right thing to block Trump, and that, having done so, it lays bear a real problem for American democracy.
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I am sure Trump will be prosecuted for at least some of his crimes.However, this is not an instant solution.Consider:There is a higher standard of proof in a criminal trial.
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