#Authoritarian

Adam Townsend

adamscrabble

Thread - Why is Trump in Japan? (no pet pics this time :(Lets discuss... Japan is countering China for control of infrastructure investment in South & Southeast Asia. Japan is

GenericPerson

GenericPerson4

ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA. An introduction. And some terms, defined.Years ago, I spent many hot antipodean winters in the archives in Adelaide, Canberra, and Darwin, reading 19th century

Janeway

CoffeewJaneway

HYDRA is a fictional authoritarian paramilitary-subversive organization bent on world domination appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, founded in ancient times as a cult centered around the

K. Louise Neufeld 🇺🇸

ninaandtito

Many of my fellow Democrats like to shit on @ProjectLincoln for their pasts as GOP rank & file/supporters/enablers.I respect the hell out of @ProjectLincoln and this is why:They are the

Abdulla

KarakMufti

THREAD. It's a good day to talk about Mariem Hassan's music, and this track in particular, released in 2010 with an album bearing the same name. Mariem Hassan was among

WeThePeople

happyshinyrobin

Post from a Portland OR resident, referring to his father-in-law:While I've been sort of following the ongoing events in Portland, I was floored by the information I recently received from

David Frum

davidfrum

No more happy talk about the "uniquely American transition of power." Trump presidency and this post-election period confirm that the US is *less* committed to democratic norms - and has

Donald Norman

dnld_nrmn

Trumpism has always been deeply and darkly spiritual. It has animated a segment of people prone to religious belief—their Christianity is an open question to me—to become their worst selves.

Dionis Cenusa

DionisCenusa

The EaP region went through various troubled episodes in 2020. Here I Iook at 5 most serious challenges and 5 most memorable opportunities (THREAD): Challenge: The crippling effect of the

Lord Matzo the Unleavened

MatzoBalling

While I agree with some of @KeithKahnHarris's thesis about the horrors of Corbynista cultism being in a large part motivated by 'love', I find it difficult to leave it there.

Citizen of Somewhere Else

CitizenSE

Dusting off my speech act theory books to anticipate Trump's defense team approach to muddying the waters on "incitement." Since nobody can doubt the "to insurrection" part, that's their only

Heidi Cuda

Heidi_Cuda

HOW DEMOCRACIES DIE: “He threatened the press, joked about ruling for life, bullied everyone..When an investigation threatened to reveal his financial corruption and complicity to criminal acts, he destroyed democracy

David McHardy 🔶

David_McHardy

[Boring Lib Dem internal chat]The reason the Layla Pamphlet is worthy of criticism isn’t that it ‘shifts the Lib Dems to the centre-left’. The potential target-vote-losing problems are instead about

The Editorial Board

johnastoehr

It's aimed at Democrats, not Republicans.'Defund the police' is bad? No, it's working by @johnastoehr https://stoehr.substack.com/p/defund-the-police-is-bad-no-its-working?r=5msd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&

Bruce "Snarking and Barking" Bartlett

BruceBartlett

I have been on this earth since 1951 and have to say that 2020 was the worst year I ever experienced. Not personally; being retired and a misanthrope with a

Abraham Newman

ANewman_forward

Thread: US risk abandoning the open internet and giving huge gift to China. Example of naive weaponized interdependence and how it could backfire.https://www.state.gov/announcing-the-expansion-of-the-clean-network-to-safeguard-americas-asse

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