#Democracies

Re: "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism", specific examples are warranted.On the technocratic side it'd be good to see more discussion of things like the EU's "Circular Economy Action
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It's actual sickening to see people who live in the safety of liberal democracies defending or whitewashing the likes of Kim Jong Un, Bashar al-Assad, Qasem Soleimani, the CCP, the
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The decision to take them to the labour board didn’t make too much sense to begin with tbh. Issue to me is not whether it not they made a reasonable
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Incredibly important story on Russian intel op to sow disinformation pointing the finger at Ukraine for 2016 U.S. election interference. A few key takeaways: 1/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/us/politics/ukraine-russia-interference.html Much of th
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현재 미국 언론들은 도람푸 각하께 이월 삼월동안 충분한 시간이 있었는데 왜 준비안했냐는 비판을 쏟고있는데, 내 기억에 그 긴 시간동안 미국 언론들은 한국 신천지가 얼마나 이상한지, 왜 중국인들은 박쥐를 먹는지, 그리고
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This is a note-to-self recap thread about some things I’ve learnt in the past month by reading (mostly specialists’ twitter accounts) about #coronavirus (-es) and related illness-es, and in particular
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Who's going to tell the premier that being open-minded and responsive to public feedback, even when negative, is also the work of democracy? Or that working democracy does NOT =
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France at war. Thread In 2004, Ghofrane Haddaoui, a young Muslim woman of Tunisian origin, was stoned to death in Marseille, France, for refusing the advances of a young Muslim
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Thread on why Journalism is so terrible. 1/ I’m tired of reading and seeing news stories that push agendas. I don’t care if it’s right or left. I’m getting tired
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This commentary by Anderson et al was just published in @TheLancet on Monday and makes for an interesting read. It explains many of the decisions being made by our specialists
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With Trump losing, let me spell out the Trump administration policies which Europe needs the Biden team to keep.Change rhetorics, not most of the policies.Let me run you though them:
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I’ve been suspended for a week (for implying some right winger was the product of incest). So I’ve come to put out my enormously controversial (or the exact opposite deleting
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The Left Aren’t Good Economic Mgrs 1/8This narrative still has traction - unfortunately & without justification.1. As parties borne of unions, workers & activists, the time old assumption is the
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Today marks 2 years since Julian Assange was arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. He’s being held in a maximum security jail because the US wants to extradite him
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FOR THE RECORDThis thread summarises the most egregious eventthis week re journos behaviour at @danielandrewsMP pressers.If we don’t value truth, then we can’t solve any issues.If lying becomes the norm
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“has rolled extreme public health crackdowns into the broader “Beijing Consensus” or “China Model” of totalitarian state capitalism that it has been promoting since the advent of the 2007-2009 GFC”It’s
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