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ElegantiaeArbit
One of the greatest patrimonies of the English people, other than the common law, is the notion of the Loyal Opposition. That you can disagree with the rulers of the
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John Ferry
JohnFerry18
Maybe there's another way of looking at this. Thread of musings:We could start by recognising that separatist referendums in free democracies are almost never heard of (Quebec and Scotland are
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Dan Nexon
dhnexon
A note on liberal democracy and counter-majoritarianism. ☑︎ The main purpose of counter-majoritarian checks, such as veto points, is to preserve the rights of subpopulations: to guard against the 'tyranny
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Thao Nguyen
nguyenthevote
many wonder if the big trends of the trump era—working-class whites becoming solid red, latinos moving right, suburban whites moving left—will continue once he leaves office the answer is yes
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Colombe Cahen-Salvador
ColombeCS
1/10People keep on asking me why I care about what's happening in #HongKong, and why at @NOW4humanity we are organizing #FridaysForFreedom across the world: "it's sad but inevitable and 'only'
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Cody Miller
CodyMillerELA
Another day, another chance to say that arguments about curriculum and pop culture are really just vehicles to adjudicate political debates. "Should we have LGBTQ books/characters in classes/movies/shows?" is just
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Pete Wharmby
commaficionado
Coronavirus was the last thing our extremely fragile, febrile democracies needed and I'm not sure they're going to make it. Future historians:"The great pandemic of 2020-2022 swept across a world
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卐 ࿗ ࿗ Mandir Guy ࿗ ࿗ 卐
MandirGuy
Found a Thread. Posting it by Doing some small changesIf Hindus don't wake up Bharata too will become a Muxlim Country in future like Afghan, Pak, Bangla, Indonesia, which were
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America-China Watcher
PandemicTruther
China's mass domestic tourism in Xinjiang, negative opinion of "democratic countries", non existent concentration camps & Covid19. All are related. 50m Chinese tourists are flocking to Xinjiang at the moment.
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(((E. Glen Weyl)))
glenweyl
The more I think about it the more paradoxical is the standard opposition of markets and democracy. The only thing that distinguishes democracy from authoritarianism on the one hand and
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nick
ntdPhD
a thread of unknown length. im not hollering at anyone specific. this is mostly a stream of consciousness. theres a through-line wrt history and tensions abt instrumentalizing democracy but i
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Joe Bassey
Joe__Bassey
THE BANDUNG CONFERENCE71 years after the Berlin Conference The Afro-Asian Conference, known generally as the Bandung Conference took place, it was the first largest gathering of Asian and African nations
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stark dålig
terriblenews
If you are familiar with the idea of "technical debt," then I have an analogy for you. 2020 is mostly the result of "democratic debt." I credit @laurenduca's excellent book
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The Redbaiter
Redbaiternz
Left's orchestrated attacks on anyone who dares to express disagreement with their media friends or political favourites highlights a major problem in our society. Legions of violent profane, unreasoning &
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Pedzisai Ruhanya
PedzisaiRuhanya
1. Dear VARAKASHI: Lets discus the forms and practices of democracy so that you see how bogus and undemocratic your ban on by-elections with the connivance of @ZECzim means to
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Seva
SevaUT
I think we really need to distinguish between failures of the liberal order, which are clearly on display, and failures of liberal democracy, which are much less so at the
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