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🧵 I argue that we can understand the functioning of democracy through 3 core ideals, verification, deliberation and accountability. While no democracy fully achieves those ideals, this thread explains how MAGA destroys all three and inevitably results in democratic regression into authoritarianism.
The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
June 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🧵 I argue that we can understand the functioning of democracy through 3 core ideals, verification, deliberation and accountability. While no democracy fully achieves those ideals, this thread explains how MAGA destroys all three and inevitably results in democratic regression into authoritarianism.
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So here’s the update. The billionaire owner of the Guardian preparing to get rid of a core part of the news org + 100 journalists.
If you’re a Guardian or Observer reader, please share this. The need for a strong, free & independent press couldn’t be greater. Yet, here it is.
If you’re a Guardian or Observer reader, please share this. The need for a strong, free & independent press couldn’t be greater. Yet, here it is.
November 25, 2024 at 10:30 PM
So here’s the update. The billionaire owner of the Guardian preparing to get rid of a core part of the news org + 100 journalists.
If you’re a Guardian or Observer reader, please share this. The need for a strong, free & independent press couldn’t be greater. Yet, here it is.
If you’re a Guardian or Observer reader, please share this. The need for a strong, free & independent press couldn’t be greater. Yet, here it is.
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RT only if you are NOT becoming more conservative as you grow older.
July 11, 2023 at 12:00 AM
RT only if you are NOT becoming more conservative as you grow older.
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Thank you @drbex.bsky.social for reminding me of Prof Timothy Snyder's "On Tyranny" I read it in 2017. Now is the time to read it again.
It's short and SO instructive for times like these I cannot recommend it more highly. If short youtube vids are more your thing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9toc...
It's short and SO instructive for times like these I cannot recommend it more highly. If short youtube vids are more your thing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9toc...
December 1, 2023 at 5:53 AM
Thank you @drbex.bsky.social for reminding me of Prof Timothy Snyder's "On Tyranny" I read it in 2017. Now is the time to read it again.
It's short and SO instructive for times like these I cannot recommend it more highly. If short youtube vids are more your thing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9toc...
It's short and SO instructive for times like these I cannot recommend it more highly. If short youtube vids are more your thing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9toc...