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Why Fascism Is Fashionable Again
At least it acknowledges that there’s a big problem
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If It Ain’t Fixed, Break It
The neoliberal logic that destroys public goods
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How Protest Is A Democratic Institution
And why we need to tear liberal democracy down
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Power To The People Beyond Parliament: Why Not?
The experience of Sri Lanka’s interregnum, and thoughts on sortition
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My Experience Of Sri Lanka’s Big Protest
The powerful protests of July 9th, 2022
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How China Is The Most Democratic Country In The World
According to a global survey, “the countries considered most democratic by their citizens are China, Vietnam, and Taiwan”
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What If Opinion Polls Actually Mattered?
Polls and the polis
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How Liberal Democracy Is Bullshit
People don’t have power. Elites do
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How Democracy Is Not Good
Democracy is just a hammer, and lately it’s been clawing peoples eyes out
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Prison Is An Unethical Experiment On Human Beings
Caging humans is a cruel experiment, practiced without results or consent.
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How Totalitarianism Is A Total Nightmare (Hannah Arendt)
Totalitarianism is, to Hannah Arendt, someone else's dream invading your body, until it becomes a nightmare.
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A Demand For Nonviolent Government
Governments have no right to hit, cage, or kill us. None.
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How America Is Becoming Nazi Germany
3 lessons from two books: Weimar Germany and Berlin In Lights
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How Modern Democracy Is Tyranny
The oldest trick in democracy is deciding that certain people aren't people at all
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Tolstoy, The Most Woke Anarchist Since Jesus
Tolstoy is the anarchist philosopher poet, trying to make peasants into philosopher kings.
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Elections Are Terrible For Democracy
We should treat public service like jury duty instead
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How Democrats Can Take Power For A Generation
I mean, they won’t, but here’s how
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Cosmetic Changes Won’t Stop American Collapse
America has already hit the iceberg. It’s going down
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How America Became A Dog Shit Democracy
By failing to convict Trump, America has condemned itself
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How The US Legalized Corruption
White people use funny words for bribes
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Western Nations Are The Most Corrupt Places In The World
Speaking fees, lobbying, ‘donations’ — it’s all just corruption
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GameStop And Why We Should Take Over The Stock Market
Seize the means of financial production. You have nothing to lose but your trades
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How The Pandemic Is Making Us Turn On Each Other
It’s not our fault, but it feels that way
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American Exceptionalism Is Getting You Killed
America is exceptionally fucked
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Inside Wuhan: Ai Weiwei’s CoroNation
An important film, showing the tragedy and triumph of the first outbreak of COVID-19
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Abolish Politicians — Why We Should Just Put Random People In Office
How could it be worse?
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Social Distancing Is Impossible. We Can’t Blame People
We can’t blame each other for government failures
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American Democracy Is Only 55 Years Old
That’s why it’s so messed up now. You’re young
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Why America Needs To Arrest Trump and How It Can Be Done
South Korea has arrested all of its living ex-Presidents. It’s possible
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COVID Has Already Broken Up The United States (Map)
The question isn’t whether America will break up. It’s how to put it back together
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Take Turns! Don’t Fight! The Advice America Needs Right Now
Trump is not taking turns. What do you think happens next?
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I Lived Through A Stupid Coup. America Is Having One Now
You’ve already lost. This is what Americans need to understand
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Why America Has An Electoral College, Explained For The Rest Of The World
It’s like the UN. That’s basically it
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Elimination Is The Only Strategy For COVID-19
It works. We have real-world examples. It just takes will
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Confucius and the Programming Language of Power
How the sage connects to Computer Science today
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The Champagne Socialist Manifesto
A specter is haunting the world — the specter of Champagne Socialism
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The Sadness Of American Collapse
The people an empire falls down on
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Why Confucius Would Hate Donald Trump
Leadership lessons applied to a terrible leader
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America Is Not A Democracy. It’s A Game
I hate to break it to you, but your democracy sucks
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The End Of The Soviet Empire
Reading Last Empire by Serhii Plokhy
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America’s A Shithole Now. Here’s Some Advice
From one shithole to another
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The Only Cure For COVID Is Removing Trump
Send out the clowns
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America Is A Sick Joke. Trump Is Just The Punchline
How America’s soft power went soft
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America, You’re Being White-Vanned
That’s how abductions used to happen in Sri Lanka
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The Developed World Is Dead
They’re not developed, they’re in decline
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COVID Underdogs: Sri Lanka
Like New Zealand except better
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The WHO Saved Us This Pandemic
Dumb, rich countries are blaming the messenger. Most of the world did fine.
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COVID Underdogs: Ghana
The best COVID-19 leadership in the world
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Sweden Is A Delusional Failure
Sweden is worse than 97% of the world
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COVID Underdogs: Mongolia
The best COVID-19 response in the world