#Democracy

#COVID19 poses a global threat to health. So why is there no comprehensive, multilateral, cooperative response to the threat?Is it because of...- Leaders?- State characteristics?- The "Structure" of the International
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SFU SSA is extremely concerned that SFU's Institute for the Humanities, the UBC Centre for India and South Asia Research (CISAR) and South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy (SANSAD) have chosen to
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AVOCADO THEORY, a thread.a few years ago, a vegan friend of mine told me a story.she'd written a post about veganism on facebook, and one of her best friends posted
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Devastating @JaneMayerNYer takedown of Mitch McConnell--How McConnell became Trump's Enabler-in-Chief even though McConnell detests Trump, having called him "nuts" & said he "can't stand him" and likened Trump to the
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It is genuinely a very sad shame that I got blocked by this guy. He is someone for whom I have a lot of respect and whom I’ve learned heaps
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Russian social media interventions are highly sophisticated & effective. Their methods are replicated by belligerent politicos who rant indiscriminately at democratic institutions & individuals they disagree with. Authoritarians need unfocuse
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Maximinimalist aesthetics permits simple, plain forms, amidst lavish ostentation and outright froo-froo; but it mandates plain be framed, beside ornament and bric-a-brac, in such a way that simplicity is most
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Hey remember that criminology thread I did on why sexual misconduct victims/survivors come forward during elections? Recently people have tried to justify police violence by shouting "Resisting Arrest!" So here's
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If:A - Democracy is government rule of, for, and by the people, andB - Progressivism is governance, administration, creation and implementation of policy and processes to effect the broadest, most
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Two years ago today, Malaysians woke up to a new government.It was the first time I voted in an election and never have I ever imagined we'd be able to
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NEW Trump alleged "fraud" even while votes were still being counted - the culmination of a strategy months in the making.Voting disinformation spread online from April - and conspiracies
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1/ One can see the devastation: https://www.boston.com/news/national-news-2/2020/05/28/minneapolis-george-floyd-riots-protests-photos that Floyd's murder brought about. What does FOX emphasize? https://www.fox9.com/news/future-affordabl
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Six million signatures.Six million.What was the response - "Tough bun, little people, your opinion matters not one bit to us".That, twitter people, is a fact.This is the reality - these
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So I'm going to try and create a thread of good ideas to transform this country into America 2.0Here. We. Go! Save taxpayer dollars on corporate bailouts and invest in
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THREAD: Mitch McConnell endangers our democracy. From refusing to alert us about Putin's attack in 2016, to his racist obstruction of Obama, to blocking hundreds of bills to improve our
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WHEW!Okay, fam. I just got back home from going to vote early today in the Bed-Stuy/Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, NY. I got to the polling place at 10am and
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