#Dictators

Marcel Dirsus

marceldirsus

When Merkel or Johnson or Macron lose power, they'll have more time to relax or give speeches. When dictators like Lukashenko lose power, they often end up in prison, exile

eric farnsworth

ericfarns

Thread on #Venezuela: Dictators in trouble always offer limited, symbolic "concessions" to play the international community for time and aid. The pattern is repeated so often that it is, well,

Heidi Cuda

Heidi_Cuda

It’s clear @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris aren’t just running for office: they’re attempting to save the country from a criminal enterprise.https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1200475621383499776 Together, Biden and Harris are taking o

Uncle Blazer

blakesmustache

Thread: Trump must be defeated or his second term will be an autocracyIt’s time to discuss the ugly truth of why Trump must be defeated.We *can* defeat him. But, if

CanisLatrans

LatransCanis1

Ok fuck it I'm just going to post a thread of flashpoint opinions and pin it to draw a line in the sand on all of these issues *the Soviet

Musa

MusaNV18

Thread:1)This is a story of how the British never left the subcontinent after the Independence of Pakistan. Throughout its colonial rule, British Raj undertook major social re-engineering of Indian society

Sulome

SulomeAnderson

Glenn Greenwald has the nicest fans This is a thread about how dangerous idiots can be. I will be attaching screenshots of all the tweets I just received in response

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prisaseal

Why we should cancel Sorn from a k-pop group CLC; A THEARD #sssornclcIsOverParty FYI, This evening had a really big news in Thailand. Thai activist name Parit who is one

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BoomLibertyNews

In the Tech hearing so far. Zuck was late for "technical issues". Jack Dorsey said that Sabre rattling by foreign dictators is ok but Trump tweets can be censored because

Patrick Lohlein

patricklohlein

The world has already entered a 2nd cold war, but few realise this because polarisation within and between Western democracies has blinded us to the growing threat from authoritarian states

Sarah Kendzior

sarahkendzior

"Trump has threatened to imprison his political opponent (Joe Biden), his opponent's family (Hunter Biden), his predecessor (Obama), and his former opponent (HRC). Trump is the only POTUS to ever

Andrew Stroehlein

astroehlein

One week ago, the European Union ceased being a bloc of democracies, as Hungary’s ruler seized unlimited power in his country. Since then, the other EU member states and the

Arber Ahmeti

str_arber

1. Problem of selectivity is endemic in international criminal law, but in the case of Kosovo Specialist Chambers there is no need to wait for the indictments to address selectivity,

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hanpersands

i haven't been talking about it as much as i planned because of the whole *gestures* everything, but i really can't stress enough how good the feverwake duology by @sosaidvictoria

Ben Rhodes

brhodes

1. As Republicans have (so far) shown no willingness to break from Trump, it's worth considering how much worse things could get under Trump if he continues to have this

Robert Young Pelton

RYP__

Christopher Miller’s name is oddly buried way down in this story. There were a group of Pentagon hires that immediately and desperately tried to shift our global security position after