#Democracies

So why I think the #GE2019 is really not done yet. A short thread. The summary: I think a hung parliament is still a very likely and a desirable
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SNP Socialists statement on Covid-19As socialists in the mass party for Scottish independence, we call on all working-class people and socialists to acknowledge, oppose and resist the UK government’s dangerously
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The Scientific American article 'The New Science of Sex and Gender' uses congenital conditions of the reproductive tract (DSDs) to make arguments about gender and identity. Let's break it down
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1/By Fintan O'Toole."US president Donald Trump has claimed he was being sarcastic and testing the media when he raised the idea that injecting disinfectant or irradiating the body with ultraviolet
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America's founding fathers restricted citizenship to Whites, because they knew that multi-racial nationhood would never work. And so it has proven.https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2020/10/theyve-got-to-get-rid-of-western-civ-they-have-to
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1/. This diagram shows how the US & UK govts appear to have a joint/parallel #COVID19 strategy, giving military-backed data-mining company, #Palantir, access to heath data on a mass scalePalantir,
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Socialism vs. capitalism: Which provides the better quality of life?A by-the-numbers thread dealing strictly in facts, which I'm told don't care about your feelings. In 1986, a study was published
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Several Western nations are ramping up capacity to test for #coronavirus, learning lessons from Asia and hoping that quickly isolating more carriers could halt the spread and help lift the
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#GeorgeOrwell wrote 1984 (pub. 1949) under the strong influence of recently defeated fascism & still rampant Soviet communism. He could hardly have imagined how #BigBrother would embrace #LiberalDemocracy, #AntiFascism &
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1/ For whom do we run transit? Are students “normal” transit users? Should they?A thread about students as core transit users in Italy versus North American’s dedicated iconic "yellow" school
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(Thread) Rolling back the clockSenator Graham: “I want to listen to her, but I’m being honest with you. . . what do you expect me to do?. . . ruin
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Current reading. A bit academic looking but every book on the decline of liberalism and democracy I’ve read in the last few years has referenced it in some form so
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My name is @ZevShalev, I am a journalist and TV executive producer. In Dec, 2016 I began blogging about the ties between Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. I
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(Thread) The Authoritarian DispositionGood question. Combining this thread (Rule of Law v. Cult of Leadership) with scholarship from political psychology brings us to the conclusion that about 1/3 of the
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Just a reminder: because of non-proportional representation and demographics: in order to break the filibuster and overcome the R+6-7 bias in the Senate, Democrats would need to win 3 straight
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THIS BOOK IS VERY IMPORTANT AND IS VERY GERMANE TO THE CURRENT SITUATION; ERGO I AGREE WITH THIS NICE LADY https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1277995678833291269 WOW. 100 YEARS IS A LONG TIME.ABOUT THE LENGTH
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