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Rashdah
rashdah_
Lessons from #diliriş_ertuğrul:I have often seen questions like these with either excited Yes's or some excuse for why its boring, lengthy, not well made, etc. Apart from the usual arguments
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Catie Lilly
catielila
What does it mean for a US presidential admin to be "good for Taiwan"? (Thinking out loud) If it's verbal support for Taiwanese democracy, sending high-level envoys, & arms sales,
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Alexander Clarkson
APHClarkson
One of the ways in which EU governments manage pressures of Freedom of Movement are systems of universal citizen registration and ID cards. A framework through which access to social
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Damien Cave
damiencave
THREAD: There’s been a lot praise for @jacindaardern lately without much context. Here's my attempt to look at how New Zealand's history and her own hard work led her to
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Goombella from Paper Mario Simp Account💎
sherk333
1 like=1 hot take Pennsylvania is part of the Midwest the UK, Canada etc shouldn't be considered democracies until they formally cease to recognize the Queen telling children santa claus
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陳俊傑 Carl Tan Chun Kiet
tanchunkiet
I feel this friction all the time in US leftist spaces and my impression is that it's a result of the difference in how Asian countries and the US treat
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Tommy
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1. So why does America promote the idea of democracy in China? Americans believe that democracies are essentially better than autocracies because they provide freedom to individuals. This freedom in
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Philip Rocco
PhilipRocco
Pundits / academics often talk about democratic erosion as if it isn't already present in the US. All that does is defer the responsibility to act, abstract the discussion of
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Aelkus
This was a byproduct of the Cold War but I also don't think its the right lesson to takehttps://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-07-07/new-cold-war-with-china-can-make-u-s-democracy-stronger It's hard to overstate the fear th
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Sheena Chestnut Greitens
SheenaGreitens
Reminder: the most basic definition of democracy is "a system in which parties lose elections." (You have to actually alternate parties in power to be sure that one party won't
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allele ☭🇨🇺
queertypes
earlier this week, I gave some thought to the notion of freedom we are sold here in the u.s.with it came a great deal of anger.here's the poem that came
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Madeleine Morris
remittancegirl
My thread for the day is about hope.Don reminded me this morning that there is no way America was not going to come to this. You cannot oppress, starve, poison
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Ali Shihabi علي الشهابي
aliShihabi
The Saudi National Day falls on Sep 23. It has been 88 yrs since King Abdulaziz created the Kingdom by uniting its multiple emirates. Had he not been able to
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Brittney Cooper
ProfessorCrunk
Everyday we watch McConnell decimate the courts. Plessy V Ferguson (1896) decimated the gains of reconstruction. It took 58 years to undo it de jure. It is taking a lifetime
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Ayo Sogunro
ayosogunro
It is just 75 years since today's 'Western liberal democracies' were colonising and slaughtering people all over the earth. The international human rights law and norms that holds them -
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Mar Hicks
histoftech
historically, most (if not all) democracies that have failed have been derailed by far, far less than this. “the election” will not save us. I truly don’t want to be
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