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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 Dec 2020

      There's time to be alarmed. It's such a time. The president's blatant, if incompetent, attempts to steal the election are happening in a period of entrenched of minority rule, and are met mostly with silence or approval by Republican leaders. New piece: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/12/trumps-farcical-inept-and-deadly-serious-coup-attempt/617309/ …pic.twitter.com/AW9bAJc65J

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 Dec 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted philip lewis

      Armed men are showing up at elected officials houses and Republican election officers in Georgia are begging for GOP leadership to stop all this ""before someone gets killed"—to no avail. The clownishness of the attempt does not make it funny or harmless.https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1335766211687313409 …

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      “Dozens of armed individuals” showed up to Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s home last night, shouting “Stop The Steal!” pic.twitter.com/rZhPK5hbsv
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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 Dec 2020

      I've seen three versions of dismissing the alarm. "This is always the way it is" (not sure how this is comforting but it's not even all true); "It's not technically a coup" (true, but we're not contesting a grade here) and "he will lose." (The path we're on is the same...).

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 Dec 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Don Moynihan

      This is exactly right. (I did not try to get into that in the piece because it was already long.) Yes, minority rule is not at all unprecedented in this country, but no we have not fully grappled with it—and that makes the need for alarm, now, more urgent.https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1335956395682902016 …

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      Don MoynihanVerified account @donmoyn
      As @zeynep points out, places develop their own language of authoritarianism based on their experience. The US largely has not, partly b/c it it has maintained peaceful transitions of power, but also b/ec it has not fully faced Jim Crow era forms of democratic repression. pic.twitter.com/4WxqC68fEJ
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    5. Matt Kuhns‏ @mjkuhns 7 Dec 2020
      Replying to @zeynep

      Fully grappling with minority rule in America means grappling with the fact that the sacred Constitution itself 1) enables minority rule and 2) is now essentially un-amendable. So ¯\_(ツ)_/¯pic.twitter.com/j4MXLjwDjE

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    6. Ben Margulies‏ @chequeredfuture 7 Dec 2020
      Replying to @mjkuhns @zeynep

      It's hard to describe the Republicans' attempt to enshrine minority rule as a "coup" when they aren't violating the Constitution, and coups are extra-constitutional.

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    7. Ben Margulies‏ @chequeredfuture 7 Dec 2020
      Replying to @chequeredfuture @mjkuhns @zeynep

      But then again, you have coup-like maneuvers that use constitutional mechanisms to remove elected officials without just cause, as recently happened in Peru (and arguably happened to Brazil's Dilma Rousseff and Paraguay's Fernando Lugo).

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 Dec 2020
      Replying to @chequeredfuture @mjkuhns

      I discuss exactly this in the piece. The fact that political science doesn't have exact terminology for this scenario is an academic problem (and I'm an academic) but people are using this word for a reason and descriptivist linguists have the right idea on that.

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