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Anders Åslund
anders_aslund
Why low oil prices are good:1. When oil prices were low 1981-2000, the world went through the third wave of democratization. Low oil prices breed democracy. 2. The 7 rich
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(((E. Glen Weyl)))
glenweyl
The more I think about it the more paradoxical is the standard opposition of markets and democracy. The only thing that distinguishes democracy from authoritarianism on the one hand and
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Alex Washburne
Alex_Washburne
Our COVID intervention was a syndicalistic tyranny of the minority.A union of academic epidemiologists who could work from home drove our entire country’s response without interfacing with other sectors and
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lisa rokusek
lisarokusek
I'm having feelings about the calls for civility I'm seeing today. First of all if you are focused on civility in the face of 200K+ dead, and kids with lost
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Tiff Roberts
shedefendsit
When the cops killed 7 y/o Aiyana Jones in Detroit during a no knock raid, they arrested her aunt saying she grabbed their gun. The aunt said she was grabbing
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A.R. Buckle
JuliusGoat
The problems with the “more extreme protests play into GOPs hands” takes are many but #1 may be: no protest will ever be peaceful enough for Trump voters, and accepting
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Vivek
vivekster
What a shitty news week. And by week I mean decades long slide into authoritarianism in every country I've had anything to do with. I keep asking myself why I
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Paul Glastris
glastris
Big mainstream news outlets are thriving and doing the best job in a generation of defending democracy. Local news outlets, however, are in total economic collapse. And big media is
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SG Abbott 🇨🇦 Vote Climate!
Mspundit
Historically, conservatism was all about the preservation of institutions and individual rights, support for the rule of law, and limits on the ability of the state to interfere in your
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Anne Applebaum
anneapplebaum
Viktor Orban gave himself extraordinary powers to rule by decree, allegedly in order to fight the virus. So far, he has used them to pass edicts on museum construction, theater
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HijackedEUrophile #WearADamnMask #3point5percent
EHijacked
Warning, Corbynista won’t like this...I had never been a member of a pol party in my 69yrs, until 2016, when I joined the LDs, hoping they might just fight the
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Anne Applebaum
anneapplebaum
Good Morning! My book is published today in both the US and the UK. The publishers could not agree on the title - for a moment there, it even got
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Gritty is the Way
Gritty20202
Biden supporters get really angry when people post Biden videos. They want to ignore his history of racism. They want to ignore Biden's history of authoritarianism. They want to ignore
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Dr. Yara Hawari د. يارا هواري
yarahawari
THREAD ON DEMOCRACY IN WB & GAZA.1/5 Discussions of elections within the PA is a favourite topic of international diplomats & journalists in Palestine. Often elections are proposed as the
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Timothy Burke
swarthmoreburke
Been pointing out again to students in my survey class that the National Party in South Africa won an election in 1948 with a minority of the popular vote among
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Santiago Mayer
santiagomayer_
I’m sorry if I’m cynical or pragmatic, but many more people will die if Trump is re-elected. We must act drastically to prevent that, even if that means putting our
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