“There are five areas that authoritarians want to control when they attempt to decapitate a democratic state, authoritarian expert Timothy Snyder writes: health, law, administration, defense & intelligence... each of these arenas, the goal is to create chaos — and yes, even death.”
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kak·i·sto·cra·cy /kakəˈstäkrəsē/ noun government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state. "the danger is that this will reduce us to kakistocracy" a state or society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens. plural noun: kakistocracies "the modern regime is at once a plutocracy and a kakistocracy"
There have been a number of op-eds put out recently essentially arguing to give RFK Jr the benefit of the doubt or indicating that some of his ideas have merit.
This is why we can’t do that. The damage RFK could do at HHS is potentially massive.
#USPOL
Hmm. I wonder if I've ever come across any public figures that exemplify this disorder
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK546...
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I almost feel as if I'm in suspended animation, waiting to see what happens next. And I'm fairly certain it won't be good for a lot of people. In the US & the world.
Please add my little to the list
Here's how I deleted all my tweets on X. Super easy, only took 5 min., and there's a tutorial:
github.com/lucahammer/t...
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Graph demonstrating rates of vaccine preventable illness decreasing over time
Vaccination saves lives. Period.
Uhoh
Gonna do the same 💙
Bitcoin is for everyone
I just learned that Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. An alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform (and yes it's really easy to transfer your lists from Goodreads to StoryGraph). You know, while we're moving things.
Is there a starter pack for American history and government professors? I need some serious “you think this has never happened before but it has” perspective please.