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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 20 Aug 2017

      The grave—global—threat is fascism and authoritarianism consolidating state power. Need to link the power of protest to countering *that*.

      17 replies 750 retweets 1,877 likes
    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 20 Aug 2017
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      German Nazis consolidated power not because they weren't opposed in the streets—they were—but because of strategic weakness of opposition.

      22 replies 295 retweets 656 likes
    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 20 Aug 2017
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      And once they consolidated state power they could crush the opposition—streets couldn't win against state violence —and carry out genocide.

      3 replies 112 retweets 331 likes
    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 20 Aug 2017
      Replying to @zeynep

      Most Western left has never faced full violence of the state. I wish we taught the 1930s. It wasn't lack of street fighting. The opposite.

      10 replies 193 retweets 550 likes
    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 20 Aug 2017
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      Advocating strategic, long-term thinking isn't from naiveté or not being radical enough. Romanticizing short-sighted tactics is the naïveté.

      7 replies 209 retweets 704 likes
    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 20 Aug 2017
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      I've protested my whole life. Protests have real power. But realism and long-term thinking about linking them to deeper organizing is key.

      6 replies 171 retweets 624 likes
      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 20 Aug 2017

      Plainly: historically, anything that looks like street brawls helps fascists consolidate power. "Many sides" is their core tactic. Works. +

      6:49 AM - 20 Aug 2017
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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 20 Aug 2017
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          Not an argument for not protecting the vulnerable. The opposite. Such protection needs to be strong, strategic and disciplined. Hard game.

          5 replies 86 retweets 354 likes
        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 20 Aug 2017
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          Taking the threat seriously means talking about that long, hard and strategic path. Summer children romanticizing a moment isn't it.

          2 replies 65 retweets 324 likes
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        2. Rachel Greenham‏ @StrangerNoise 20 Aug 2017
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          sometimes it sounds like everything the fascists do works and everything the non-fascists do is doomed to fail.

          4 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 20 Aug 2017
          Replying to @StrangerNoise

          I actually don't think so.

          1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
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        1.  🤖 🦉CyberOwl  🦉 🤖‏ @Supreme_Owl_FTW 20 Aug 2017
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          Communist revolution wasn't different. Your one-sided, tendentious reading of European (our) history is suspect.

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        2. nathanjurgenson‏ @nathanjurgenson 20 Aug 2017
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          when nazis show up and trump is president, people will fight them. point should be how to strategize *given that will happen*

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 20 Aug 2017
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          I didn't argue about fighting or not.

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        1. Emm Martin‏ @emmartin173 21 Aug 2017
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          Those of us old enough to remember 60s, know demonstrations & street brawls helped put Nixon in ofc & re-elect after Watergate. History, ppl

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