#Populist

Śrīkānta

shrikanth_krish

Thread on politicsThe origins of Left vs Right divide stem back to the last days of Roman republic when you had the Populares vs OptimatesThe conservative aristocrats who upheld Senate

Slav 🇵🇸 Morality

slavmorality

Thread:1/6While Kyle Rittenhouse is just a kid, and a kid with brass balls at that, we need to be dispassionate and recognize what the system has now made him into:

Robert E Kelly

Robert_E_Kelly

Thread on the South Korean Right's crushing legislative defeat yesterday. This is the third defeat in a row, each getting worse. I wrote 16 mos. ago about the right's implosion

Una Hajdari

UnaHajdari

This is a big deal. The Court of Justice of the European Union just ruled that Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic violated EU law during the 2015 refugee crisis.https://sz.de/1.4865714

Adam H. Johnson

adamjohnsonNYC

The Pelosi Ice Cream thing wasn’t, of course, about ice cream, and it wasn’t full blown Marie Antoinette but it captured the tonal aloofness of dem leadership & a key

les fleurs du mal

decadentdespair

I really want to know why Filipinos hate people who are too intelligent, too radical, or too fault-finding. Is it rooted in how they were conditioned by their families (often

iJustin

justinijeh

The guy who tweeted this is the reason why I wrote the tweets on this there’s a few years ago...They have aged well so far....https://twitter.com/toluogunlesi/status/1246793016511213569 #TheMakingOfANigerianActivist. Part 11. Make positive

Wilma Schrover

wschrover

Highly educated people often share the social bubble of quite sensible people who are convinced that they are well informed with their subscription to @nytimes, @washingtonpost or @guardian and their

el gato malo

boriquagato

simple rule: if you would seek to understand who a populist politician is and what they are doing, simply ask them to describe their enemies. they'll describe themselves to

Greg Sibley

GtSibley

This is silly.Part of the reason why the NDP won a massive mandate during COVID is because the pandemic has made us all realize that NDP policies like investing in

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willoftzeentch

historians are bad at defining fascism, struggling to separate it from potential other forms of hyper-nationalist, hyper-militaristic, right-wing populist, racial supremacist, nativist, and anti-democratic ideologiesthis makes pinpointing f

ORH

ORHamilton

Here’s hoping Egypt’s waning geo-strategic importance leads to the release of the EIPR staff. In every dept Egypt is less relevant now to EU and US interests than it was

Neil Yates (EndChildPoverty)

neilayates

Currently the educational regressives have the ear of government via Nick Gibb, the Minister for Schools since Methuselah was in Year Two. His universally derided boss Gav has been convinced

Mugwump

anonmugwump

Jenrick is a good example of a few recent angsty reactions to media: some journos sensationalise / sex up story; people focus on that; more information comes out and confirms

Howard Stevenson

hstevenson10

Reading Andrew Gamble’s contribution to @MarkPerryman ‘s ‘Corbynism from Below’. This quote seems timely - I hear a lot about ‘no return to “normal” ‘. But, as Gamble points out,

James Lindsay, man of internet swagger

ConceptualJames

Here's a fun read (pdf) that helps explains why Critical Social Justice and MAGA aren't all that different. They're both critical theories, just with opposite goals.http://rothbard.altervista.org/articles/right-wing-populism.pdf Excerpt,