Max Fisher

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feel like this explains my mentions the last 24 hours — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @PaliwalAvi: Delighted to be quoted extensively in this detailed @nytimes piece by @Max_Fisher on the coup in Myanmar. Some v. interesti… — PolitiTweet.org

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What just happened in Myanmar makes much more sense, I write – as does so much of the country’s trauma and turbulence – when you see the high-level power-struggle that ultimately brought it to this point https://t.co/wo3GmCJ4P8 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @nytimes: Rather than coexisting, Myanmar's military and civilian government spent much of the last few years escalating a bitter and in… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @waiwainu: Myanmar Military media #Myawaddy just declared State of Emergency for a year according to 2008 Constitution section 417. For… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @the_ayeminthant: ATMs near my apartment are no longer working and there are rumors the banks won't be opening today. — PolitiTweet.org

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ASSK's task – always hard, maybe impossible – was to hold a coalition for slow, bumpy transition to democracy. I don't know anyone who thinks she seriously tried this. Many in her own party told me she was illiberal and authoritarian, and had herself become a threat to democracy. — PolitiTweet.org

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Aung San Suu Kyi backed the military on the genocide, but it’s a mistake to define her as broadly caving to the generals. The genocide was popular with her base. And her rule has been defined by consolidating power: from minorities, the pro-mil USDP, even from her own party. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DenisonBe To me it seems even more ignorant of Facebook, and the way that hate speech spreads on the platform, than of Myanmar. A lot of folks spent years pushing FB to a better set of policies on Myanmar, and even sorta succeeded! — PolitiTweet.org

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@DenisonBe The board is pretty diverse, but opinions are unsigned so we don't know if this is from, say, a Kenyan human rights org director or a retired US circuit court judge https://t.co/6Ifpnqp5xI — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @PaliwalAvi: 2. I can’t help but compare ASSK’s situation w/ Z. Bhutto in 1977. Both wildly popular among a select ethnic demography, bu… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @thantmyintu: The doors just opened to a very different future. I have a sinking feeling that no one will really be able to control what… — PolitiTweet.org

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Myanmar’s military, which is feared to be seizing control of the country, has used Facebook in the past to whip up genocidal sentiment https://t.co/Rc0XLk61RQ — PolitiTweet.org

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One thing to keep an eye on re Myanmar: Facebook, which remains perhaps the most important communications medium there. Just three days ago, Facebook’s “oversight board” forced the platform to reinstate anti-Muslim hate speech, invoking “freedom of expression." https://t.co/Z9UakR2lRb — PolitiTweet.org

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During the genocide, social platforms in Myanmar were flooded with pro-Aung San Suu Kyi nationalism. Burmese Buddhists who backed the genocide saw her as one of them. — PolitiTweet.org

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You often see Aung San Suu Kyi characterized as tolerating the genocide as a way to avoid angering military leaders. But she had evinced hostility to the country’s Rohingya minority for years, describing them as illegal foreigners and a danger to Buddhists. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is important context for what is currently happening in Myanmar: https://t.co/qCh08VRqsd https://t.co/zsiIxuWlVJ — PolitiTweet.org

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Myanmar’s civilian government, though surely more democratic than military rule, has been eroding the country’s nascent democracy and consolidating power for itself for a few years now. https://t.co/OAVityGP8U — PolitiTweet.org

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Fears of a military coup have been growing in Myanmar over the last few days. The military rejected the country’s recent election as (it said) fraudulent. The pro-military USDP party had fared poorly in the vote. https://t.co/MYqP7UAUwt — PolitiTweet.org

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Fears of a military coup have been growing in Myanmar over the last few days. The military rejected the country’s recent as (it said) fraudulent. The pro-military USDP party had fared poorly in the vote. https://t.co/MYqP7UAUwt — PolitiTweet.org

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Caveat emptor on social media images, but photos circulating appear to show what reports from Myanmar are describing as a series of early-morning “arrests” made by the military https://t.co/Uzmp5DiX1T — PolitiTweet.org

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Whatever the actual nature of events in Myanmar, high-level instability has frequently led to severe violence here. One of many big risks: a number of the country's rebel groups might see an opening to press their agenda. — PolitiTweet.org

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Looking like a military coup may be underway in Myanmar, according to claims by the country’s ruling political party. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TMclaughlin3: The rumors of a coup that have been swirling in recent days in Myanmar very much look to have turned into action early th… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TedGenoways: I met the reclusive Cormac McCarthy once. All he wanted to talk about was man-eating animals—the Tsavo lions that ate rail… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @aaronhuertas: Interesting perspective on #StonkGate from an Ask Reddit thread. This has a bunch of financial professionals who are on R… — PolitiTweet.org

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News this week: There’s now a slightly reduced chance that we’ll all die in a fiery nuclear holocaust in the next five years. That’s nice! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @evanchill: The footage shows how rioters, in their effort to attack the police with crutches, a hockey stick and pepper spray, trampled… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @joshuakeating: A popular genre of Tweet: "Oh, I see everyone on here is suddenly an expert in [x] now." You guys know what website you… — PolitiTweet.org

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Framing anti-Muslim hate speech in the anti-Muslim genocide country as a matter of “freedom of expression” feels almost willfully ignorant of every hard-won lesson from the last 5 years on how hate and incitement spread online. Taking this stand on Myanmar of all places!! https://t.co/Vi6ZU0SUht — PolitiTweet.org