#Democracy

Concerning behavioral campaigns being tested in Canada. Great similarities to deceptive information operations deployed for counterterrorism by SCL years ago - they recommended spreading rumours about strangers to get parents
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#Modi_Hatao_Dash_BachaoThe blastards who wanted @narendramodi to stop wasting money on vaccines and give that money to farmers are blaming him for not vaccinating India quickly enough.Thread: 1/N The primps who
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Back in 2016, @thomasfrank_'s "Listen, Liberal!" forcefully explained that "liberals" are not leftists, and that while we on the left might sometimes ally with liberals, we are not on the
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Pleasure to join @shofarbymenorah this Sunday for a conversation with former head of the Israeli Shin Bet and former Commander of the Israeli Navy, Ami Ayalon, about his new book
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Recent Afrobarometer Round 8 Ethiopia findings on federalism and the Constitution have sparked a lot of debate on social media. Afrobarometer does not involve itself in partisan debates, but we
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THREAD. Given that the GOP is apparently adopting Q'ers as part of their platform, it's worth reading about the psychology of conspiracy theorists. Three characteristics they share: high anxiety, loss
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Normalisation of a repressive regime? Nothing about this govt is normal - think back a few years and compare the amount of the following to today's govt HonestyOpennessIntegritySelflessnessObjectivityAccountabilityLeadership (as in
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Mr Ross confirmed urgent orders had now been granted by the High Court in Auckland on the SFO application preventing his use of a document sent to him in error
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questions for non-brazilians: a thread do you know what this is? what/where are these? what is this? how many states are there in brazil? what is the capital of brazil?
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Unpopular take on Scottish Twitter, but my bag of fucks is depleted so:If we have unionist list MSPs in the Scottish Parliament, it's because people vote for them. "Gaming" the
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Thread:1-X: we have so many crises (trash, electricity, corruption)why cant our big government fix them?Y: maybe we should opt for something more decentralized like federalism? Local governments will deal directly
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A democracy has 2 purposes. In rules agreed upon by the governed, to:*Protect the security and total well being of its current and future citizens.*To ensure equal opportunity so all
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Essential reading from @BChappatta on the Fed's clever lawyering around CARES Act requirements for companies that received government rescue funding. I think this gets at the heart of a debate
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The problem with Labour isn't who leads it. It is who it is, the membership and it's MPs. Barring a handful they do not, and never can represent the former
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HK Police (and it is usually heavily armed riot cops) have handed out countless fines to pro-democracy activists for allegedly breaching the social distancing regulations. Meanwhile, they pay no attention
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Thread on Communism:Khrushchev delivered this, do you remember September 29, 1959?  THIS WAS HIS ENTIRE QUOTE:THIS WAS HIS ENTIRE QUOTE:A sobering reminder.Almost exactly sixty years ago since Russia’s Khrushchev delivered his messag
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