#Politics

2/ The authors (and Karen in other work) describe people who have authoritarian dispositions, and distinguish such people from traditional or "status quo" conservatives. Those with authoritarian dispositions are averse
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ThreadI like and respect these guys, but I simply can't understand the inability to grasp @realDonaldTrump.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lOAuIUxcT4 It's so EASY to figure out why Trump is the way he is.Trump is
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Trump is heir to McCain,Pence tells Europe....Pence lavished praise on McCain at inaugural John McCain award ceremony?!?https://twitter.com/thefarsideright/status/1096803941717807104?s=12#QAnon @realDonaldTrump !!NEW Q - 2738!!14:00:44 EST https://tw
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I’m brushing my teeth in the morning. For a moment, I glance up at myself in the mirror. A thought occurs to me.How different could my life have been?No matter.
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@ChristineNiles1 @cryan2791 @BenedictCarter6 @BVMConsolatrix Here comes the complete email thread between Christine Niles amd myself. I added SM/CN to denote whose email it is and noted where I inserted a
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S Korea's Assembly elections are on April 15! Let's pick a district that seems interesting from the replies to the QT below.District of the day: Seoul Yongsan-gu. Several requests for
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I stumbled across this info... Could this be the “real” reasons behind Adam Schiff’s relentless efforts to get ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩ impeached? According to what all I’ve read, Trump has made innuendos
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While -border clash is garnering attention, disputes over territory are widespread.With all due respect to the "Democratic Peace", the true "closest thing to an empirical law" in international politics is
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Just a PSA: I was blocked by @MattGlantz for questioning why he'd want to share this coronavirus article from a shitty, anonymous "news" site. Honestly expected more from Matt on
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@SecPompeo wants a "new alliance of democracies".Can this happen after 3+ years of @realDonaldTrump berating traditional US allies?Absolutely! IR scholarship shows that forming alliances has little to do with being
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THREAD1)Joe Biden claims to have a "smarter way to be tough on Iran"He & Obama had eight years & showed only weakness, emboldening #Iran's regime to further its atrocities both
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An Unconventional Canal: Will Turkey Rewrite the Rules for Black Sea Access?In a new background briefing for @FOIresearch I look at how Erdogan’s canal project could affect the Montreux Convention
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1/You see this? Welcome to woke capitalism. Let's look at how woke activists brought the business/corporate world too their knees, took them over, and captured their institutions...and what we can
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One concept that exists in translation studies is the idea of domesticating versus foreignizing translation strategies, or in other words, the extent to which you want to adapt the translation
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Here's a wee history of the emergence of transphobia in the SNP, with some thoughts about what it might mean for the struggle in Labour.I'm less interested in "saving" Labour
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We are here today to deliberate the case of one Daniel John Hannan MP who stands charged with being the most cynical liar in British politics.(Thread) Admitted into evidence to
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