#Authoritarian

Zack Beauchamp

zackbeauchamp

1. I want to talk about this @DouthatNYT column, and why I think it's wrong — mainly, that it misunderstands what "authoritarianism" ishttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/10/opinion/sunday/trump-election-authoritarianism.html 2.

antihero_kate

antihero_kate

‘Nice’ and ‘good’ aren’t descriptives that matter to me in politics. I KNOW most of the prominent voices of so-called reason on the left are nice and good people. That’s

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

I think I’m failing to understand something basic. What exactly is the endgame with this social distancing strategy? Doesn’t flattening the curve just mean moving the spike to later when

Aristotle Magganas

AristotleMa

My impression is that in the PRC such information distortion is quite common due to the incentives provincial officials and party cadres face in the promotion system, etc. The consequences

🔥Allison🔥

kruppofnoodles

That Russian opposition leader who was ”poisoned” is a literal Nazi and the US media and ”intelligence” want to make you feel bad for this guy because they don't like

el gato malo

boriquagato

less than 3% of positive PCR tests for covid were actually viable virus even at a 35 Ct.97% could not be cultured/were not live. these people were not sick nor

Seth Dunlap

sethdunlap

THREAD w/ VIDEO: Louisville Police along with the Kentucky National Guard kettle protesters and media, then decide to let corporate media leave while deeming freelance and independent journalists “fake” and

Final Brain Cell

initialvw

1/ Quick thread around hiring boycotts of @UTLaw law students as a tactic in pressuring an intransigent administration hellbent on refusing to do the right thing.As a general matter, there

Insta: @funwrita

funwrita

Interview with a cult member: a thread. Cults have been around forever. Some might not he as extreme or as popular as others, but they all have the same characteristics

Quinn H Tracey

AUDEIE90

America’s On A Knife’s EdgeA thread http://livinglifeasasocialbutterflyelf.blog/2020/10/28/__trashed/ There are Four Ways the Election Can Go — and Three of Them End With Democracy Dying If you're anything like me, you're wei

Comrade Fudge

HNIJohnMiller

1) Continuing my late night thread.Where I left off, I covered how the local socialist politicians would clear law enforcement off the streets, let the antifa goons riot, and then

Claudia Chender

ChenderMLA

THREADDemocracy is inconvenient. It was built that way. Every government thinks they know what’s best and want to act without interference or oversight. But that’s not democratic, it’s authoritarian. #nspoli

Jónas Haraldsson Balding 大老板

BaldingsWorld

Very proud to have worked with a global coalition of journalists and @rpotter_9 to bring a database managed by a Chinese intelligence and military contractor to the light of day.

Burritx

WokeBurrito

A short threadWhen people say "trans women are women", I don't think most of them actually believe it. Some of them say it because they are afraid to not say

ドーナツボーン 🌐🧦🇭🇰🇹🇼

ZodiacKodiak

Articles re: China in the age of Coronavirus https://www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/business/china-coronavirus-propaganda.amp.html?amp_js_v=a3&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQIKAGwASDAAQE%3D#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww

John Hayward

Doc_0

The great dream of the 90s was that information would set us free. 30 years later, we know how naive that was. Information is EASIER to control and distort now.