#Authoritarianism

Now mind you, I’m smart. I have three degrees including a doctorate. I’m a member of Mensa. I was a nuclear reactor operator. This is not arrogance; I’m illustrating that
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When I look at my own intellectual and moral trajectory, I find my values mostly unchanged, but my models of political and historical reality changed dramatically between 20 and 40.
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Given some feedback on my Tweets, I think I need to clarify a few points here.First, I'm not just some wacky paranoid lib that thinks the GOP is setting up
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1) Read this whole thing - this is Insane I’ll put some quotes / important items below Obama PLANNED for the Riots | The Black Sphere https://theblacksphere.net/2020/06/obama-planned-for-the-riots/ via @KevinJacksonTBS 2)
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"(Norway's prime minister) Solberg held a dedicated press conference where no adults were allowed. She responded to kids’ questions from across the country, taking time to explain why it was
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On the December 2, 1993 cover of Time magazine there was a computer-generated image of a young woman who appeared to be mixed-race. The cover illustration was to symbolically show
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Thread: Low-Traffic Neighbourhoods and the Far Right. If you follow #cycling and #activetravel Twitter, you'll know how there's always been some antagonism between cyclists on one side and a loose
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Covid-19 poses a lot of challenges to justice. A thread. There is a spike in cased of #GBV. Prevention of violence against people stuck in their homes is needed.https://twitter.com/abila1914/status/1247517075746086913 The
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20 Things I've Learned (Or Had Confirmed) About Humanity During The 'Pandemic' (THREAD):1/ Most people would rather be in the majority, than be right. 2/ At least 20% of the
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"The reason this crime cohort united is because there is money to be made in breaking up the US and selling it for parts. They want to recreate the fall
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Moving into Bitcoin is not just an economic imperative, but a moral duty.This is my first piece in a while, but one that I feel everyone should read to remind
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The president has just decided that anyone battling fascism is the enemy. If this follows the logic of the USA Patriot Act — and why wouldn’t it? – it means
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Okay, I’ve got a couple of election-aftermath takes I want to share. Each of these ought to be a column, but parenting in apandemicisexhausting. (1/who knows?) First, I know
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Like many, I was first introduced to the Korean labor movement through the story of workers' rights activist, Chun Tae-il ("We are not machines!"). It wasn't until more recently that
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A Biden/Harris ticket is far from what a lot of us wanted, but progressive disengagement from unfavorable realities won’t lead to the formation of more favorable realities. (A thread if
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A thread: Many understand masking - especially community cloth masking does nothing to stop transmission of the nanometres long virons & no evidence for asymptomatic spreading exists. Should we mask
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