#Authoritarianism

There have been serious clashes in Belgrade, #Serbia. Protesters stormed the parliament building and have been clashing with police. Read more about it here: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-serbia-protests/demonstrator
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Mini-rant so I can get it off my chest: I keep seeing people saying white churches MUST preach anti-racism. Stop it. For one thing, any time you tell somebody they
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Thread: On realism and Iraq. @McFaul, affronted that some in US progressive politics are calling for a "progressive realist" foreign policy, insists: realism is responsible for war and destruction over
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97) I just believe his sort of principled rigidity on free-speech issues blinds him to the real-world effects of fascism – particularly how it manipulates free-speech principles in order to
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1. The president told on himself over the weekend. The conventional wisdom holds in Washington that he beat Hillary Clinton over issues of global trade, immigration and “economic anxiety.” 2.
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The case this week is from India and is interestingly connected in more ways than one to the one we discussed last week from the US. It's the bank nationalisation
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TRUMP'S SECRET POLICE: A HISTORY LESSON No #TrumpGestapo without Bush.No Bush legacy without Obama, Pelosi, and establishment Dems.(Centrists, ignore this thread if you hate uncomfortable facts.)#PortlandProtests #SecretPolice #Fascism
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Thread – Possible American Dystopias in 20211. Dystopia: an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one. 2. I read
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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
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As America celebrates its defeat of an authoritarian in the middle of consolidating power, it is critical to stay vigilant.In my @BylineTimes interview with historian @ruthbenghiat she cautions these so-called
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I share some of Malcolm’s concerns but I can’t really get too worried about definitions. This is coming up a lot lately & I know they relate to concepts &
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Stephen Miller Catches CoronavirusI put this aside during the Amy Coney Barrett hearings but wanted to finish it now.(Thread/Sermon—>) Because history is already being rewritten, and crimes against humanity are
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1. I teach a class at Wesleyan on how to understand the 2020 presidential election. (Well, not at Wesleyan; everything’s over Zoom for the time being.) Students are naturally curious.
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1). *An unknown chapter in the history of the Indian Subcontinent:*Q. Why India returned the 93000 #PrisonersOfWar to Pakistan?Ans: It was d 2nd of August,1972. D 13 day long war
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If the president wins—either fairly or by “going in with our lawyers” after Election Day—the forces that have been building since Barack Obama's victory are going to slough off whatever
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1/ WOKENESS IS KILLING THE ACADEMY. By design, perhaps?Me in grad school (1990s): "You are kidding, right? Why are you defending postmodernism and using that as a theoretical foundation for
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