#Authoritarianism

So since someone asked let me explain. Why have I spent 9 years teaching in China and 2 in Vietnam? Couple reasons. First, man the world is awesome and this
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1) Why so little focus on China's more than impressive community response to #COVID19 in the English-speaking media? Multiple reasons, but here's a few thoughts as to why this might
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We might not agree with @BernieSanders' beliefs on harm reduction, but he's changed the political landscape forever thanks to us and our belief in him. He basically ruined the establishment's
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This morning @JoeNBC, had a very emotional moment where he tried to talk directly to his friends and family who have fallen into the place where they honestly fear AOC
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(Thread) What we mean when we say, “It’s about race” (and sexism and homophobia and fear of difference)In response to my thread on Trump-GOP-Russia love, @barryszuul, says, like c'mon, we're
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[@joshuawongcf & @KwongGlacier in @washingtonpost: This is the final nail in the coffin for HK’s autonomy]https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/24/this-is-final-nail-coffin-hong-kongs-autonomy/1/ Beijing has just hammered th
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Cw: Mass death and disease. While the mainstream media fawns over the Oscars the COVID situation in India has turned insanely horrific. It's essentially what LA was like back in
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More thoughts on Millar, Emperor in the Roman World (1977). THREAD Hopkins' review (rehashed in a recent essay in the TLS) wished for another book, of "new" social history. Millar's
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1 - The sad fact of the matter is there is a section of society that believe Tories are fair game for the disgraceful scenes we have seen outside Cummings
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What happens when burning shit down is the only way the powerless ever get heard? 1/10 "A riot is the language of the unheard."- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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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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White Liberals that stoke the riots are trying to actively destroy black people in such an insidious manner.Make them vote in the politicians who mobilize and field terrible police forces,
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A little experiment explaining how scientists, doctors and academics have learned not to speak out the truth.It all starts with 5 monkeys... 1/n The Five Monkeys Experiment"An experimenter puts 5
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Last night was a national humiliation. By that I don’t mean a humiliation for the nation, which has been a clown show since Michelle Obama’s best friend stole the 2000
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Ted Chiang isn't just a fantastic writer, he's also a fantastic thinker about the world (these don't always go together, surprisingly). Here he is being incredibly smart about this current
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i rly dislike when Americans complain:see India, see Africa, see Asia - - where material conditions are all met?see America.. #special https://twitter.com/xychelsea/status/1391118298323030025 socialism never works, i was born in a
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