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Assistant Professor of Political Science -- My work is on democratization, autocracies, the military, and political parties. Unsure of what to post on BlueSky when its cloudy outside.
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COME ON. WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE.
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Democratic Senators must stop everything. The Senate must grind to a halt.
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It came out last week.
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Every vote in support of the GOP or Trump from a Democrat is a vote in favor of allowing their colleagues to be tackled by authoritarian thugs.
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There is no one single issue that brings all soft-liners together except that they want an off ramp out of the current regime and that could be for any number of reasons -- say thinking invading Greenland is bonkers or spending billions on gulags.
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Im not disagreeing with that take at all. But there are vested interests to destroy the platform so it wouldn't be that crazy of a conspiracy if some tech folks were trying to nuke it.
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And shoe polish
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Political Scientist: there is an actor or institution facilitating cooperation
Economist: there is an incentive producing cooperation
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Given how many people and outlets seem to be writing about how terrible Bluesky is, it wouldn't be far fetched to presume that someone is funding/coordinating this.
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Elite media are going walk people right into authoritarianism.
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The White House is demanding that ICE get deportations up, and ordering any career law enforcement who objects to get the hell out of the way.
The head of ICE’s Enforcement and Removal operations apparently resigned rather than obey an order to fire ICE officers who weren’t hitting arrest quotas!
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In 2020 there were a ton of REP postings -- even in deep red states.
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We have been facing a crisis of democracy since 2016 and departments around the country looked at my field and went...eh