#Authoritarianism

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

Ángel Alcalde

Angel_Alcalde_

THREAD. 1) My book ‘War Veterans and Fascism in Interwar Europe’ explains whether and how ex-combatants became members and supporters of fascist movements and regimes after the First World War.

Denis Radenković

38one

In Belgrade, the protestors have broken into the parliament building tonight. The current gov are criminals and autocrats just as the previous one, the one before, the one before that

Caitlin Johnstone ⏳

caitoz

Why The ‘Lesser Evil’ Is An Illusion"Biden will function in the same way a skin suit full of government agencies, war profiteers and rapacious corporations would function if it became

Oeishik🎱

NoOneUnscripted

I'm an American living abroad. I woke up on January 7th (evening Jan. 6th in the U.S.) thinking, I wonder how that hate rally turned out. Just two days before

Mark Greene

RemakingManhood

THREAD: Domination-based culture is what the GOP is selling. -- As the Republican Party leans more and more into what seem to be impossibly contradictory positions, we need to understand

Rhys McKavanagh

RhysMcKavanagh

RE finding happiness & being trans- I think if you sit & listen all the live long day to people telling you that transition is tragic, and that the transes

Koala Kai 🗽 #JusticeForBreonnaTaylor #BLM

LiberateAllOfUs

Karl Rove brazenly told us in W's admin that there would be a permanent Republican Party in charge. That's not democracy. That's a plot - decades old even then -

Vienna Teng

viennateng

OK. I’ve been reluctant to use my platform as an artist for U.S. electoral politics. But I’ve decided that this time around, I can't afford *not* to. This isn’t about

Paolo Gerbaudo

paologerbaudo

Some key points from my @guardian article on the populist Right's reaction to the #coronavirus crisis. THREAD Populist Right has built its strength on hard-headedness and arrogant self-confidence. Yet,

Farrah Bostic

farrahbostic

A few thoughts re shame/shaming in the national political discourse:To begin, democracies rely on the concept of shame. What I mean is: They rely on ideas of decency & fairness

allele ☭🇨🇺

queertypes

time to chill and read some "State and Revolution" (1918): https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/Lenin continues to be astoundingly relevant for our current and future struggles. "In a democratic republic, Engels c

Lloyd🛡️Hardy

lloydhardy

Dear Friends,I have a very sincere request for you. When you vote tomorrow, please think about *who* you want vote in - and out.In the last few years we have

Eliza Mondegreen

elizamondegreen

Self-id is a misnomer. Anyone can "self-identify" however they please—as a precious child of God, Python fan, diva, heir of the Enlightenment, a man or a woman or neither, whatever

Wokal Distance

wokal_distance

1/"No one ever becomes an Antiracist."-Ibram Kendi, Author of: "How To Be An Antiracist," "Be Antiracist," and "Antiracist baby."If you ever wanted proof that wokeness is a sham and it's

David Frum

davidfrum

This story in the New York Post is corroborated by African sources too. https://www.africanews.com/2020/04/11/coronavirus-updates-across-africa-africanews-hub/ It inspires me to answer the challenge raised by @billmaher on Friday night: why *not* ref