#Democracy

💧😷Queen Victoria

Vic_Rollison

Remember I’ve studied this. When a false narrative takes off (JobKeeper form was filled in wrong), there is no way to stop it. Media never climbs down and admits they

Gaurav

s0vietonion

THREAD:Since this hellsite is flooded with a ridiculous volume of misinformation and overconfidence from people who simply refuse to engage with theory, I'll be doing a thread with a basic

Charlie Savage

charlie_savage

A nugget in John Bolton's book may explain a war powers q that arose in 2018 after Trump's strike on Syria: what was the admin legal team's analysis for how

Jen See

iamjensee

Friends, the closer we get to the election, the more crazy shit the old man is going to say, okay? When they put a camera in his face? He’s going

Glendalough

Ciaran61215770

1/4People sometimes ask, "why would you want a monarch to rule over you, what if they turn out to be bad"? That is because a bad monarch's cruddy behaviors are

Femi Gbajabiamila

femigbaja

Events in my home state Lagos, last night and up until this afternoon, have left my heart heavy and my spirit disturbed. After sixty years, our democracy should have grown

Patrick Deneen

PatrickDeneen

Liberalism holds that there can be no common good, only individual interests. What passes as "common" is merely aggregation - the markets, voting, etc. It is believed that only through

Maya Wang 王松莲

wang_maya

Today I published a piece on US-China tech competition. I describe the emergence of a China technosphere, where the values of Beijing’s brand of authoritarianism permeate, a kind of techno-authoritarianism

Aaron Astor

AstorAaron

Every election since 2004 I've obsessively watched poll numbers, often checking several times a day in the months before the election. And my mood usually follows the latest polls until

headsherpa

Head_sherpa

A friend of mine sent me a link to a Bill Maher commentary that he largely agrees with and that's been a sore point between us. First the Maher piece:https://twitter.com/billmaher/status/1195595438058983425?s=20

Shahin Vallée

Shahinvallee

Very pleased to publish this piece on @Verfassungsblog for the first time. Everyone is discussing @BVerfG but the real landmark constitutional decision this week was taken by the Conseil d'Etat

Feminist Therapist

FeMNisTherapist

If we start with our shared values, we can find a place of mutual respect with space for our differences. A major difference between the US and other countries is

Doing Our Part

part_our

In our years of observing the rise of the Compassionate America now so civically engaged, it's clear that there's, indeed, a third ideology in America. And, it is the "Rule

MIT Technology Review

techreview

This is a thread about how the world’s largest democracy shuts down its internet, the subject of our newest Deep Tech podcast episode. Hint: A 135-year-old law gives India the

Eldon Katz 🌹

eldon_katz

Is democracy even possible under capitalism? I'm tired of shouting into the void about how all the empirical evidence makes it clear that the results we're getting aren't what the

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goodbadugly88

If your Voting for Trump you are voting for neoliberalism. Profits are more important than people Every part of human life and existence should become a commodity or a financial instrument.