#Authoritarian

Asha Rangappa

AshaRangappa_

STEP DOWN FROM THE LEDGE THREAD. Let's take a deep breath and understand what is happening and why. When we understand motives, we are better able to evaluate the situation

Flute Person

ComradeFlute

French protesters are not better equipped, more skilled, or more radical than Seattle protesters, they just have more of them. Why is this? Because France doesn't have a culture of

Anna Rascouët-Paz

rascouet

I wanted to share a series I've been working on. Research to shed light on this moment. Hang on to your hats, here comes a thread. A live chat from

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Today's @bopinion post is about a rare weak point in the Chinese economic model: China's difficulty in doing foreign deals.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-12-18/china-s-belt-and-road-project-reveals-a-key-economic-

mattparlmer 🌷

mattparlmer

One like one thing on my mind 1) I've lost a ton of respect for a ton of public intellectuals over the last few months, mainly for abusing their credentials

Black Socialists in America

BlackSocialists

Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin was a SNCC and BPP member who hijacked a plane to Cuba to evade prosecution for allegedly trying to kill a KKK leader before being extradited from

Enigma

enigma_pt

This is the most cringe thing I have seen today They're so openly communist and unironically satanist - it is just sad - i am thinking about making a thread

Bazaari (in training)

SuspiciousPleb

The ability of flipping off ones President or PM without being charged, or voting in elections doesn’t imply the state of political agency plebs have.Political systems are far more complex

Nina Jankowicz

wiczipedia

Alternate reading: “we got there the American way, by hastening the decline of democracy” https://twitter.com/b_fung/status/1288230070117597190 Honestly, if Facebook had been a force for transparency, for equality, for the protection of

Janek Lasocki

JanekLasocki

1/ This Christmas+New Year take a moment to think of the 159 Belarusian political prisoners who remain behind bars. Their crime: trying this year to peacefully stand up to an

Slava Malamud

SlavaMalamud

I was interviewed by the Voice of America's Russian service last night. It was hard to find any other Democratic-voting Russians with any name recognition, I guess. They asked me

Michael Deibert

michaelcdeibert

Thread: Over the weekend, amid the large anti-govt demo in Port-au-Prince & the beginning of Carnival in Port-de-Paix, I made a point of talking to some of my friends in

Kirsten Goa 🌈

kirstengoa

Building a "Big Tent". Extending the metaphor, a (long) thread.A big tent isn't built through wishy washy positions or through ideological purity. A big tent needs strong but limber poles/stakes

Sol 太阳 쏠

Solzi_Sez

This chart is called REVERSION TO THE MEAN.Here’s a macro-historic analysis of China’s economy as a percentage of global GDP over the last 2000 years. Data from the Madison Project.

En Bloc Press

en_bloc_press

Early thoughts on the events unfolding in the Portland area. The activities aren't shocking, but the risk of brinksmanship is very real when ego and idealogy are involved.Thread => The

Sanjay Kamat

Sanjay_Kamat

1/n John Gall's "Systemantics: The Systems Bible" is a classic book about complex systems. Worth re-reading and revisiting many times. This thread is a compendium of insights, quotes, and my

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