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Glenn Greenwald
ggreenwald
The overwhelming victory by Evo Morales’ party in the Bolivia election highlights a key propagandistic scam: when westerners like @SecPompeo & @Yascha_Mounk want to undemocratically change the governments of other
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Anthony Smith
adr_smith
1/5: While there have been previous examples at national level of emergency measures combined with disruption of parliamentary business (eg Ebola), the #COVID-19 pandemic has made this a global phenomenon.
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Daniel Baryon
AnarkYouTube
Cuba hasn't achieved anything more radical than Sweden at a foundational level. Enterprises are still not owned by the workers, they have instituted (great) stop-gap social programs, they both have
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A.S. Paglayan
aspaglayan
So happy this is out #openaccess in @apsrjournal! If you study or teach comparative politics, political economy, democracy, autocracy, #education, development, or methods, this article has sth for you. Thread:https://cup.org/3hzmCTD
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Craig F
socscipublisher
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ContextFall
ContextFall
Please take a moment to accept where we are.This is a statement from an institution so important it's written into the Constitution.They're plainly saying that this vote isn't fair. This
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ian bremmer
ianbremmer
I’m unconvinced the US is the big geopolitical loser post coronavirus. Yes, absence of US leadership gives China more influence, particularly w poor countries that desperately need help. But there’s
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Alexandra Ossola
ossolalex
The US has one of the lowest voter turnouts of any developed nation. In recent years experts have floated the idea that #compulsoryvoting could help. I looked into it for
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Anna Arutunyan
scrawnya
A great take from @SevaUT Gunitsky on what’s wrong with the fight against Russian disinformation. This is becoming a pretty serious problem, and it’s fed by three key mistakes about
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Jane Coaston
janecoaston
Referencing Weimar Germany for any reason besides “maybe parliamentary democracies should have first past the post rules” and “hyperinflation is bad” and “perhaps a rule that states the President can
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Parker Molloy
ParkerMolloy
If he loses, there is zero chance Trump willingly gives up power. People replying to this tweet with things like “It doesn’t matter” and “the Secret Service will have to
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Nicole Curato
NicoleCurato
My message to international press: We need to de-exoticize the Philippines. It may seem peculiar why Filipinos are voting for strongmen’s children, but the logic is familiar to many countries,
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Realist_Indian
India_Progress
Most of the Asian super success stories were under single party rule or non democracies. Today where India is. It is the closest we will get to that situation. Modi
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝
Sundae_Gurl
The country that elected Donald Trump in 2016 was unhappy and divided. The country he is asking to re-elect him is more unhappy and more divided. Daily life is consumed
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Adam Gurri
adamgurri
This appears to be argument by very specifically defined tautology. I'm not really sure what people hope to accomplish when they take this approach https://twitter.com/shadihamid/status/1306222678311919617 Some components of the EC
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Ahmed Tholal🎈
Tholman_79
Do's and Dont's for am MP: A ThreadDemocracies are meant to be by the people, for the people and of the people. To ensure public participation in governance, democracies use
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