#Authoritarian

Excited to share my new piece in the latest @ForeignAffairs, which argues that the global information contest is a key domain in Great Power competition.China's info manipulation on COVID-19 is
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Donald wants to know how the GOP gets people to vote against their own self-interests. Answer: The GOP propaganda machine is designed to play on their fears.Do you all know
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1/12“It is high time that we all stopped being tools and victims of totalitarian techniques that, if continued here unchecked, will surely end what we have come to cherish as
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With Trump provoking violence at his upcoming rally and revelations about his approval of concentration camps, it is WAY past time people recognize he's an authoritarian leading a fascist movementContinuing
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Can we please for the love of god stop wringing our hands now over whether Trump is a fascist authoritarian and do something about it? Can’t you people see it
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This thought is both tired and exhausting, but ... before 2015, never in my wildest dystopian flights of fancy would I have imagined it possible that we'd ever have a
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Hey @RadioFreeTom -I get that you’re mad that people don’t listen to experts anymore, but let’s take a look at the root of that problem. Namely, what experts try to
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7.1 is a bad idea, extremely prone to misuse by an already authoritarian government. It doesn't sit well with the rest of very fair suggestions. Tax the rich, don't abolish
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These overly-simplified takes are driving me crazy.This is not directed at Mr. Shaub, whom I have a great deal of respect for, but at the underlying data and news outlets.This
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A thing that is very hard to communicate without sounding like a crank or like you’ve given up is that ...Even if Biden is voted in, and the senate is
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Imagine a Democratic senator who was smart enough to just say: "We can't predict the future, but we're gonna fight like hell and the American people are on our side."That's
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Ppl have said "ah, the Hong Kong rioting was justified because they were resisting an authoritarian big brother state" and like, BRO?DOZENS of Ferguson protesters and activists have "died under
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My theory is that the left isn’t divided by authoritarian vs libertarian, but as normal left vs weird left. Here are some examples: ML: The Soviet Union had many issues,
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The 'plan b' academics have a website that gives more detail. Essentially build herd immunity. Intellectual rigour is weak, no representation from clinicians, Māori, ethics etc, examples cherry picked. Here
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It's both a means & an end. We have to keep theorizing, practicing, trying, defending the ideal until we arrive at the realization of it. Human rights-based democracy & racism
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2020 is about putting country first. Let me explain. People have approached me about an independent/conservative run in the general. I’ve had members of the Libertarian Party approach me about
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