#Authoritarianism

Nilanjana Roy

nilanjanaroy

More warnings about the future of the country; looking at various media / religious persecution/ freedom indices, all I can say is that 2021 is the last chance India has

Roderic Day

RodericDay

Lots of "cultural anthropology" dead-enders are just the softest limb of US regime change operationsI thought that after their embarrassing participation in Bolivia's 2019 coup, some of them would have

The Editorial Board

johnastoehr

Democracy is a faith, too. by @johnastoehr https://stoehr.substack.com/p/democracy-is-a-faith-too?r=5msd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter 1. On Monday, the Times ran an article as significant as it was general

Christian Hoffmann

cphoffmann

I love how (academic) Twitter enables us to watch colleagues “think out lout”, as we grapple with current events. The recent shocking images from Washington have spawned a number of

Josh | 김은총

JoshC0301

Everytime I read the latest atrocity propaganda from the US based on "personal testimony," I always search for their names to see if they've changed their testimony over time. I

Ben Rhodes

brhodes

1. There has always been a ton of smoke around the relationship between Trump and Erdogan, two of the most corrupt leaders in the world. Whatever happens in November, this

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

Please listen.I've written a lot of threads, but this might be the most pressing. Trump's authoritarianism is a full-blown national crisis and history shows us the American presidency is ripe

Kristina Harrison

KJ_Harrison

It's shocking that you imply women's existence as an oppressed sex, protected under the Equality Act explicitly, is merely a belief, not a biological (& socialised) reality, one which in

John Hayward

Doc_0

Is it possible to fight against totalitarian statists without ever compromising conservative "principles?" Is it better to play "fair," and constantly lose? Can you grapple with monsters without becoming a

Nur Banu Simsek

stansocrates

Okay I read the article. I remembered halfway through that I'd read the first half of it before but had stopped, so I finished it this time.https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v40/n06/amia-srinivasan/does-anyone-have-the-right-to-sex The El

Joshua Collins

InvisiblesMuros

1) A THREAD on tankie twitter: Its worth the time to take a look at this batshit crazy movement. Let's start by defining the termIn 1956 a student rebellion erupted

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satoshik0n

As a bogazici student heres a thread of me attempting to explain whats been going on for the past month #HerYerBoğaziçiHerYerDireniş #AsağıBakmaycağız erdogan appointed a rector to the university who

Kwan-Yiu Marco Lam

Cyfiero

It's a lot more complex than this because if the CCP does officially characterize themselves as 'left-wing', it is only to maintain the charade of continuing to be socialist rather

JC Dentana

Moonsoother

It occurs to me I should start a thread for collecting more examples and information about this as it reveals itself to mehttps://twitter.com/Moonsoother/status/1299241944556531713 Because of this current brouhaha. But cozyness

Maya Forstater

MForstater

. @GATEOrg are looking for a consultant to write a hit piece on UK feminists who are concerned about the replacement of sex by gender in law and policy and

❈ Monika ❈

Dragonfly_Drama

https://www.forbes.com/sites/avivahwittenbergcox/2020/04/13/what-do-countries-with-the-best-coronavirus-reponses-have-in-common-women-leaders/amp/?__twitter_impression=true Looking for examples of true leadership in a crisis? From Iceland t

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