#Authoritarianism

Domination culture never ends at gender, race or religion. Authoritarians and fascists like Trump, like the GOP, like MAGA, like white nationalists need every single human being subjugated, under the
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Ooooooooo...Turrrreeeeek. Do you have a deconstruction fancy that you want us Ex-Christians to tickle?Are you tired of the usual, boring tropes from former believers who tell you that they left
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By attacking the al-Aqsa mosque and encouraging settler violence in #SheikhJarrah, Israeli security forces aimed to push Palestinians to a violence. This can be held up to the world as
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OK, before the rumor mill spins out of control, I think I should just come clean.I’m the one who wrote that parody article about Israel being responsible for repression in
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I miss getting my hair cut.Barber shops and salons have been closed in Rhode Island for weeks. I've got the side part working out of necessity for the first time
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The meltdown described in this piece is completely surreal. What bothers me the most about these people, even more than their authoritarianism, is their stupidity. They are just *really* dumb,
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Lord Sumption's lecture on the govt response to COVID-19 is definitely worth watching. Makes crystal clear there has been an unconstitutional power-grab by the executive and agencies like the police.I
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So I promised a thread on this from @SamoBurja.What's missing from the tech articles and Western reporting is a mental framework for how governance works (or don't) in the Chinese
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This by @ThePlumLineGS on Trump’s exec under-reach rather than incompetence as a key facet of his authoritarianism is super important. This malign neglect is a baked in part of conservativism.
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1/20. Democracy is precious and exceptional. 2/20. Democracy is undone from within rather than from without. 3/20. The occasion to undo democracy is often an election. 4/20. The mechanism to
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No more happy talk about the "uniquely American transition of power." Trump presidency and this post-election period confirm that the US is *less* committed to democratic norms - and has
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Again. Please listen.Donald Trump isn’t president to help anyone. He’s not interested in saving lives or marshaling resources to fight a pandemic.Donald Trump is president to deal a death blow
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Happy to unblock for the sake of transparency, and offer some background. Neera has not asked me a single question about my own reporting on this story. She’s instead been
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rating philosophers: a threadi know nobody cares and i’m posting this anyways Sigmund Freud: 0/10 I HATE THIS GUY SO MUCH. FREUD MORE LIKE FRAUD. GO KILL 400 EELS AND
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Thread with my commentary on the "Transition Integrity Project's" wargames of the election aftermath.Read it yourself here:https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/read-the-transition-integrity-projects-full-report/ar-BB17x0w3h
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After everything that's happened with @sapinker and the letter to the Linguistic Society of America, I'm excited to share with you a preprint copy of a journal article submitted for
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