Max Fisher

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

What a time to be alive — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @NinaBernstein1: Compassionate & smart primer on the meaning of refugee resettlement & it’s abandonment. “What we see now is a global r… — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/0ynUpfkarn — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DavidColeACLU: Important take on UK’s constraints on populism. https://t.co/KsP5XwPeod via @NYTimes — PolitiTweet.org

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The globally-salient lesson from Britain’s unusual, momentary success turning back populism’s excesses touches on what @dziblatt told me was “the least popular thing that we say” in his book with Steve Levitsky on how democracies die. There’s such a thing as too much democracy. — PolitiTweet.org

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Deep into the era of tear-it-all-down populism, in one of the countries most disrupted by that trend, the fail-safes meant to keep politicians in check are, for once, working as intended. In a time of faltering institutions and norms, they have held. https://t.co/zbY1bw6pI7 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NesrineMalik: My book is out today! Readers are already getting in touch with their own myths and it’s very exciting. Buy it here and,… — PolitiTweet.org

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@nbj914 Drive to London, got a guest bedroom with your name on it (but shitty parking) — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MazMHussain: I spent time in Bosnia and Serbia this year speaking to people from both sides of genocide that took place in the 1990s. T… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ericakland: Julian Castro and Bernie Sanders are the only Democratic nominees going to the Islamic Society of North America’s conventio… — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattyglesias I read an article about this once, can't remember where https://t.co/zdZkIwXop5 https://t.co/WWbUtYQfDu — PolitiTweet.org

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“One day, we’ll be able to take off our masks, embrace, and finally see each other.” https://t.co/8HLp35Amje — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @nytimes: As fires rage across the Amazon, a growing number of scientists are raising the alarm about a nightmare scenario that could se… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Emma_Dumain: .@feliciasonmez teaching a master class in journalism ethics here. I'm so sorry you have to go through this but so in awe… — PolitiTweet.org

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Before some USA twitter guy accuses the Swedish military of soft-skinned virtual-signaling or whatever, reminder that they’re bunkering onto the island of Gotland to hold the entire Baltic Sea against Russian A2/AD. They’re pretty metal. — PolitiTweet.org

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I’m in this! (Unless they cut me) (To talk about my reporting on social media, I didn’t become a nazi or anything) — PolitiTweet.org

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@rianjohnson @mikeduncan Rest easy, we're doing a full readthru of Brick at the pub, whether they want us to or not — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattyglesias People reading this as some kind of rebuke of Matt — it’s not. I read his point as saying that the ethnolinguistic national model is one that some states pursue and others don’t, which seems totally correct to me. Please stop being shitty to him in my replies. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mikeduncan Mike come to London. I haven’t directed even one star war but I will buy you a beer — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattyglesias Popular mythology says that ethnolinguistic communities, fixed and eternal, created states in their images. In reality, states ruling over heterodox populations engineered linguistic homogeneity and ethnic identities for the sake of political legitimation and mass mobilization. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattyglesias This gets the causation backwards. Europeans didn’t just borders around preexisting, homogenous ethnolinguistic communities. The borders came first, then the language was homogenized and the ethnic identity created. In 1789 France only 12% of the population spoke French fluently. — PolitiTweet.org

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(by “lamenting” I mean “lamenting the supposed loss of.”) Anyhow this ends your semi-annual rant that “enlightenment values” is ahistorical and that a lot of people use those “human progress” charts to make deeply misleading arguments about where progress is occurring and why. — PolitiTweet.org

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The irony is that people touting/lamenting “enlightenment values” as the driver of human progress place those values in the West but then their evidence is graph charts about global child mortality and life expectancy where the actual progress is all in India, China, and Africa. — PolitiTweet.org

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The proponents of so-called “enlightenment values” (which actual historians have disputed) are usually careful to code their arguments in “culture” or “history" to make them sound race-neutral but every once in a while someone like Wax says something that gives the game away — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AASchapiro: Returning to this @Max_Fisher piece on Facebook in India. One interesting item: internal FB documents claimed Indian law… — PolitiTweet.org

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It was already obvious, but this is yet another reminder that "Enlightenment values" is just code for "white superiority" — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TalKopan: If you don’t follow @Haleaziz’s reporting you are missing at least 50% of all immigration scoops, btw. — PolitiTweet.org

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This episode is going to get treated as Trumpian aberration from Polite Norms but big factions in the US and Israel have been arguing since the Second Intifada that all "real" Jews have an inborn duty to the Israeli state and its right-wing leadership, and to US pols who back it. — PolitiTweet.org

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Historically, accusing Jews of mass national disloyalty for supporting the wrong political party has worked out fine. Never been an issue. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @pressfreedom: It has been five years since U.S. journalist James W. Foley was murdered. Islamic State militants shared footage of his e… — PolitiTweet.org