#Freedoms

The Warning Bell 🧨

Lynette30067504

IS THIS THE END OF DEMOCRACY? Before leaders assert authoritarian rule, they: create a crisis demonize opponents declare a state of emergency undermine elections make the rule of law irrelevanthttps://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09

Aug Tells

aug_tells

Some literally do not understand what logic, reason, or knowledge is. They actually believe that yelling, making a display, and pretending that mockery is important, is how one debates, argues,

Naomi Smith 🇬🇧🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

pimlicat

Almost a year ago to the day, Johnson swept to an 80 seat victory in the #GE2019 and then declared “get ready for Brexit”.We now know he meant “get ready

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

I wrote a tweet yesterday stating that #ZeroCovid "is not compatible with the individual rights and freedoms that characterise postwar democracies". My point was apparently largely misunderstood. Thus, I wish

seeshell

Tentoads4truth

The Atlas Network, funded by the Kochs and other billionaire rightwing Republicans, are involved in Canadian political groups and supposedly non-partisan think-tanks:https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1043957692782514177.html https://twitte

Nick Cohen

NickCohen4

Thread1 Conclusive reply from @anneapplebaum to the “involuntary conservatives”, who say that, although they deplore Trump, they will vote for him because they fear the intolerance of the left morehttps://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archi

Maajid أبو عمّار

MaajidNawaz

URGENT THREAD:“Covert warfare by Russia & China, including cyberhacking & disinformation, risks an “uncontrollable state of all-out war”, the head of the (UK) armed forces has warned.”Read the next tweet

Comrade Toph 🍞🌹

shirtnsleeve

You do not want to be rich (a thread). You do not want to be rich. You want to be able to tell your boss to fuck off without losing

Michelle Pini

vmp9

As you may know, at the start of this month, I took over as managing editor from the incomparable @davrosz, who founded IA and brought IA to this point. So,

Sofya Orlosky

smorlosky

A long list of fmr national security staff, diplomats, analysts and other pundits calling for a review of US foreign policy toward #Russia. I do have a few thoughts too.

i'm a rebel - soul rebel...

FeliciaHandmade

“but the gov't have said that the won’t be mandatory, so chill out”.what part of coercion/forced consent isn't clicking? again; they’ll hold your freedoms, your business, even your loved

John Lichfield

john_lichfield

French Covid thread. Depending on your viewpoint, the figures for the last week are “encouraging” (the government) or “misleadingly stable” (epidemiologists). Average daily cases and deaths fell for the first

Mondo Lopez

mondolopez2

Defunding ICEUgh....Democrate Senators and Congressmen...I'm gonna let you in on a little secret in the "Latin" community.We are not stupid.We work hard for EVERYTHING we can get. Sure there are

Ben Goldsmith

BenGoldsmith

Sweden’s top medical adviser did tell the world several months ago that countries which placed their entire populations under house arrest (causing untold misery in the process) would simply see

Glen Scrivener ن

glenscrivener

Conspiracy theories have a compelling purchase on our imagination because they tap into what's undeniable: there *are* unseen powers in the world; we're not as free as we think; and

abolitionism = spicy reformism

no_slave_coasts

ontological slavery is the enslavement of a people "a priori" - the decision that a people are "enslavable""ontology" = study/nature of being. ontological slavery is a worldview that says some

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