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Nick Carmody JD, MS Psych
Nick_Carmody
As analyzed in this thread about the Right experiencing a "God is dead" moment, the "behavior isn't important" dynamic is probably the most dangerous aspect of the current religious authoritarian
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Pinboard
Pinboard
I want to strongly speak out against this view, which I hear from too many directions. The idea that fascism arrives one week from today if we don't win some
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Jared Yates Sexton
JYSexton
Watching the news now is a dizzying horror, an exercise in self-flagellation.That's what Trump wants. Authoritarians depend on endless scandal to break the public will and train them to expect
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Heath Mayo
HeathMayo
For those keeping score, the modern Republican Party now believes in big, federal government just as much, if not more than the Democratic Party. It also doesn’t care about the
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𝟠𝕃𝕍ℂ𝕂 🏴𝕵𝖊𝖘𝖚𝖘 : bloodeagle
realblackjesus
Life has risks. I want you to have the ability to determine how much risk you’re comfortable with. This makes me evil The powers that be should be providing information
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Rabbit
skittishprey
I’ve been talking about anprim and anti-civ stuff on here a lot more than usual lately because the left is suddenly hell-bent on painting them all with an inaccurate brush,
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Elad Nehorai
PopChassid
I'd like to do a short thread on the nature of trolling, and why Trump's approach to it is a perfect example of how insidious it is.https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1199718185865535490 When I first
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Kutie Herzog
kittypurrzog
If Trump were as authoritarian as some people seem to think (and not just a bumbling idiot & egomaniac, as I tend to think), it seems like he would have
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Mark Greene
RemakingManhood
THREAD: If you boil down “good bloodlines” to it's essential meaning, it means “everyone who is not me is expendable.” Remember that when you hear someone talk about “good bloodlines.”
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Nick 2.1.0 🧢
noalgonick
Here's the American narrative.1. Wuhan enforced an oppressive lockdown because they are an Authoritarian nation2. It worked but the numbers are still questionable3. Now that the lockdown is over, they
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Garry Kasparov
Kasparov63
While most concerns about the US becoming like Putin's Russia focused on an authoritarian president, I'm starting to worry about an enfeebled Congress with extremist wings like Russia's: Nationalists and
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Ḟreyjạ
utotranslucence
‘...the nature of power is that it never stays equally distributed, and any attempt to force equality of power itself becomes hierarchical.’May become a thread of quotes from The Guru
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Alex Dukalskis
AlexDukalskis
My @OUPAcademic book Making the World Safe for Dictatorship is now officially published. [Thread] You can see more details and purchase the book here:https://global.oup.com/academic/product/making-the-world-safe-for-dictatorship-97801975201
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antihero_kate
antihero_kate
I’m not sure what Claire Lehmann’s end game is but she talks a lot of shit for someone who descended into authoritarian hysteria over covid.To suggest that conservatives could have
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Jónas Haraldsson Balding 大老板
BaldingsWorld
I see lots of hand wringing about the WHO decision but rather than cliched kumbaya hand holding let's unpack some of this. Let me posit at the start I am
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ka joma ᜃ | جوما |🌱 read arak (activist study)
comradejoma
Engels 'On Authority' https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/10/authority.htm"All Socialists are agreed that the political state, & with it political authority, will disappear as a result of the coming social revo
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