Toggle navigation
TWunroll
TWunroll
faq
Contact US
#Authoritarians
Adnan Rasool
adnanrasool
In IR we study at length how countries under pressure domestically will try to divert attention by engaging in low intensity conflicts. The key logic is that diversion works. Most
Read more
Jubilee
workingjubilee
Please read The Authoritarians if you are still muttering "I just don't get it" about any of this. https://theauthoritarians.org/options-for-getting-the-book/ Take 328 million people.Minus the 29% not eligible.Minus the 33% wh
Read more
DNC War Room
DNCWarRoom
John Bolton's book confirms what we already know — Trump's in office for himself, he's caved to China, and he'd rather appeal to foreign authoritarians than the American people.Exhibit A:
Read more
A.R. (Actually Republic) Moxon
JuliusGoat
Tens of millions of Americans think the person on the left is the violent aggressor. Location South Carolina, late May. Photo Credit: CrushRushhttps://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2882282881998706&id=100006510664599 Enjoying hear
Read more
Nate from South Minneapolis #EvictOrangeDouche
nate_fight2020
Sitting here pondering a little history.During the revolution ~25% of the nation supported the UK here in the colonies. So, is it REALLY surprising that 73 mil Americans support Trump?It
Read more
Jared Yates Sexton
JYSexton
We’re drowning in conspiracy theories because America is failing as a nation and the myths of exceptionalism and white supremacy mean believers must find explanations beyond failings in leadership and
Read more
John Hayward
Doc_0
Time once again to emphasize the differences between totalitarianism, authoritarianism, and fascism. They're often used as synonyms but they are different, although they do tend to lead to each other.
Read more
Andy Silvester
silvesterldn
With regret... thread: I’m not sure you can blame the public for not having perfect knowledge of the risk pattern for the virus when the Government’s strategy heretofore has been
Read more
zeynep tufekci
zeynep
Trump was incompetent at his brand of authoritarianism, and he lost. But this isn't a triumph: the Democrats lost almost everything else. Make no mistake, about what's coming: The next
Read more
Elizabeth Nolan Brown
ENBrown
Backpage was seized & its owners arrested BEFORE FOSTA became law, and @WIRED & @GiladEdelman need to issue a correction The reason this matters is because members of Congress LIED
Read more
CrimethInc.
crimethinc
Our full report on Washington prosecutors' decision not to charge the far-right shooter:http://cwc.im/OlympiaShootingsIn refusing to press charges against a gunman who carried out a widely documented shooting, they are inviting
Read more
A.R. (Actually Republic) Moxon
JuliusGoat
In the end, the core matter isn’t a question of whether Trump is actively collaborating with foreign authoritarian governments, which he almost certainly is. The core issue is that he,
Read more
David Roberts
drvolts
One of my meta-takes on Trump & the Trump years is that all your critiques of him do not put HIM in a bad light-- he is what he is,
Read more
Jessica Ludwig
JesLudwig
If you don't follow @RollandNadege, you really should! In our new report @ThinkDemocracy, she explains how authoritarian regimes—including in China, Russia, & Gulf states—leverage their own versions of "think tanks"
Read more
Eric Weinstein
EricRWeinstein
That’s Eric with a “C”, middle initial R, Last name W-E-I-N-S-T-E-I-N.And, to save you authoritarians the time, you can put me down for opposing ANY future racist movement that bigotedly
Read more
ᖇ⦿ᖘ Gonggrijp
rop_g
The EU has (so far) escaped what could have been the most serious and immediate threat to its existence to date. We can all count ourselves lucky that the extreme
Read more
‹
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
...
12
13
›
By continuing to use the site, you are consenting to the use of cookies as explained in our
Cookie Policy
to improve your experience.
I agree