Max Fisher

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From Pippa Norris, a huge name in the field: https://t.co/j3ONxjKfPc — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@stcolumbia Lots of dumb takes out there asking pols to disavow violence or extremism for the wrong reasons, but that doesn't mean the exercise is necessarily and always pointless — PolitiTweet.org

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@stcolumbia I think that last part is the point. It’s a costly commitment in the form of the pol saying something that hurts their standing with the militants. I don’t think anyone serious expects it to have an effect on the ground. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Max_Fisher: I remember being called hysterical and alarmist for this column https://t.co/w3XBD7Rbqt — PolitiTweet.org

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Crucially, elected leaders who turn autocratic tend to be held up by self-interested political systems that "mimic democratic institutions while gradually eroding their functions.” Few recognize this as explicit democratic erosion until it’s too late. — PolitiTweet.org

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One reason this got missed: dictators no longer fit the Bond-villain image we expect. Today’s line-blurring autocrats tend to be bumbling, paranoid, polarizing, but have "mastered the art of subverting electoral standards without breaking their democratic facade completely.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Last year, a very important University of Gothenburg study identified a global “wave of autocratization” – 75 cases of countries backsliding. Disturbingly, most were democracies. https://t.co/N0paXNSXkM https://t.co/Ch423NV0fo — PolitiTweet.org

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This one too, from October 2016, on Trump’s threats echoing those of other elected strongmen who pull down democracy from within. I was told to take him “seriously, not literally.” https://t.co/tph4RaKHCm — PolitiTweet.org

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I remember being called hysterical and alarmist for this column — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CaseyNewton: Together, I truly believe we can build new models for reader-supported journalism. There will be lots more to say in the w… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @chrissyteigen: Forced sterilization is genocide. The future will label it as genocide, so let’s call it this now. https://t.co/U5qDqia3… — PolitiTweet.org

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@mccanner @bydanielvictor Fwiw they have it at Waitrose. Also American stuff like that you can almost always find at the Kensington Whole Foods — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MazMHussain: Feel bad for Palestinians being subjected to this cringeworthy Good Cop-Bad Cop routine over such a long period of time. I… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BenjySarlin: Expect appeals, but this ruling could lead to deportations for upwards of 400,000 migrants, many of whom have worked here… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ArmsControlWonk: Introducing The Deal: a new podcast series about the Iran nuclear deal. How it came together, how it fell apart and wh… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Schwartzesque: Hard to say who will discover the vaccine, but easy to predict who will get credit -- whichever group of scientists Mich… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @alexstamos: 1) This information is generally public and could have been taken from hundreds of customers of voter information brokers.… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @propublica: Investigators reviewed thousands of pages of emails and other records and concluded that “inept contract management and inc… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JMBooyah: I have so much family in Irving. This is scary — PolitiTweet.org

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This book looks incredible. @BarbaraDemick's last, on North Korea, was brilliant. Just ordered and can't wait to read it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MazMHussain consistently awed by the power of your meme folder — PolitiTweet.org

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@Vinncent Ha, this is great. In retrospect, skepticism about the supposed benefits of routing an ever-growing share of human social relations through opaque, profit-maximizing corporate systems has aged pretty well! — PolitiTweet.org

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@Vinncent It's amazing how many truly talented minds, in cutting-edge fields with blue-sky possibilities, are dedicating their professional lives to exactly these products — PolitiTweet.org

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These numbers were not inevitable, and they're not normal. Each of those 178,400 is a name and a story that was cut short. — PolitiTweet.org

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I am writing a book on this, which is why it's on my mind. I don't yet have a preorder page, but if you follow this account I promise I will eventually inundate you with preorder links until you either cave or block me! https://t.co/llVvUEG8oE — PolitiTweet.org

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@MazMHussain That’s interesting. Wonder if that also speaks to the appeal of certain strains of hip hop that lean into aspirationalism. It’s certainly an attitude I hear people associate with Americans a lot in Asia, anecdotally — PolitiTweet.org

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Maybe I'm missing something but I feel like I've seen 10,000 takes & tweets scolding people for saying that New York is over, and close to zero takes or tweets saying that New York is over — PolitiTweet.org

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Sorry did Trump just refer to ... having defeated ?? coronavirus?? ... Past tense? — PolitiTweet.org

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YouTube only brought in $20+ billion in revenue last year, though, so it's not like the company is in a position to slow down the engagement-maximizing algorithms that drive its business model and are repeatedly linked to YouTube-borne radicalization, including in this study — PolitiTweet.org