#Authoritarian

We debate as if there are only two paths: A total authoritarian lockdown, or one big college break beach party that tosses all precautions to the wind. No. We must
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Read the article!!Trump tells the states to get their supplies on their own. When they do, the Feds seize the shipments or try to. Last month, 3 million masks ordered
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Shortfrom me on yesterday's arrest of a woman in Ballarat: While regional Victoria is currently under stage 3 stay-at-home orders and gatherings are banned, the arrest of somebody purely for
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Unlike the Spanish govt., the Portuguese govt. seems to have done everything just about right. But the authors of the article say the cooperation of the opposition in Portugal has
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I just keep un-retweeting this piece so I can retweet it again. Because even though I'm not even a Hongkie, I am feeling all of this, like, a lot.https://twitter.com/wilfredchan/status/1264289843074531335 Hong
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New study about country founded on ideas of democracy and the practice of slavery: "When intolerant white people fear democracy may benefit marginalized people, they abandon their commitment to democracy."https://www.nbcnews.com/t
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Clinging to her mother's waist, sobbing and terrified, Milagros refused to leave. Only after she fainted did the hospital let her in. 48 hours after her labor pains began, she
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After @SecPompeo officially declares HK ‘no longer autonomous’, here is my msg to world leaders & foreign companies: 1/ National security law carries massive damage to expats & investors in
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Capitalist authoritarian violence kills without any accountability.How many dead people?How many are ever held to account?Capitalism kills with impunity.Fuck that. If you think that the death caused by capitalism is
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This sort of joylessness is unsustainable.Today we enjoy the fruits of a nationwide project of organizing to halt the forward momentum of a white supremacist authoritarian project.People worked so hard
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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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As a Kenyan, discussing police brutality in America and being up in arms about it feels disingenuous because the same thing, if not on an even more gruesome scale occurs
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What you need to understand is that there is no "Trump Administration."There's the illusion of a Trump Administration that's used by a cadre of anti-government criminals who only pretend to
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1/ @Facebook, @Twitter and @Google have all built internal tools to implement systematic censorship. The tools are little different to the tools used by China's authoritarian government. They may not
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Increasingly looking more as if this November we're going to discover not whether or not Trump will win re-election (he won't), but whether our political/legal infrastructure has been degraded enough
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Background reading for #HudumaNamba hearing today in #Kenya high court. Petitioners @NubianRights @HakiKNCHR @thekhrc argue the digital biometric ID system’s adoption followed an unconstitutional path (see #aadhaar) and the system
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