This isn’t frightening, this is ridicilous. Get a grip people, if you want to talk about things elsewhere, you need to, like, get your head out of the US and think for a microsecond. https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/950581647891513345 …
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I observed many examples over the years... I think I’ll write it up longer. There are things that REALLY need to be fixed in the US—but also many powerful tools for democracy and protecting human rights. Being convinced you have no tools is more effective than all the oppression.
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Also, haha, I was typing on my phone typo in first tweet in the thread!
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@PaperhandPuppet show in Chapel Hill, as I do every year. (They are a national treasure!) They had picked Shelley / rise like lions after slumber / as their theme. They are onto something.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/901943841003110401 …
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Anyway, end late night (for me!) rant. I may have ranted on this one, but I don't mean to single them out. I've been observing this in many spheres. Americans probably need to shake that dew that had fallen on them in sleep more than anything else. The tools are there. /rant
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I'm not saying it is completely unimportant but putting a meh cease-and-desist letter even in the same *page* as Putin or Sisi is .. ridiculous. (spelled correctly unlike first tweet in thread! Sorry!) Exaggeration is a form of learned-powerlessness. https://twitter.com/georgelenzer/status/950693854633775104 …
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I call it Americans being Americans. It's pretty cute, tbh.
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"I can't get funding for my story about Star Wars porg collectibles." "I got my arm hacked off for writing about atheism." "AS I WAS SAYING, funding seems to have dried up..."
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I am sympathetic to your perspective and yet I think your view fails to account for the special role of the American Experiment as a shining example of freedom to the rest of the world. Trump’s egregious violation of norms creates more space for the autocrats of the world.
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Yes worth mentioning but relatively marginal effect. Not for that list.
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Seems like it also can lead to complacency; i.e. thinking all we need to do is elect someone else and everything’s be fine.
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